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| brightmeadow |
Posted - Sep 09 2006 : 06:09:16 AM
Apple season is almost here!
I am looking for a chart of apple variety information - which ones are good for what type of application (Pie, baking, applesauce, cider, etc.)
I found this one http://www.michiganapples.com/index.asp?Loc=2&Loc2=5
But it's missing some of the old varieties I like like Yellow Transparent, Lodi, and Greening. I'd also like to know when each variety ripens/comes to market.
Does anyone have a site like that bookmarked?
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Sep 14 2006 : 4:30:21 PM
I have a little Yellow Transparent tree..I planted it the first year we moved here..4 years ago. The first winter the deer nearly killed it..it came back this year and I got about 6 beautiful apples from it. It sure riped faster than my other old apple trees (a Jonathan and a delicious.) I sure look forward to it getting big and producing like crazy..if the deer can just leave it alone a few more years!!! I noticed since moving here that the apple varieties that are popular here are very different and the old varieties are very hard to find!
Jenny in Utah
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| PocketFarmgirl |
Posted - Sep 14 2006 : 2:57:33 PM
BStein- I just moved away from you! I was in Lancaster! |
| Libbie |
Posted - Sep 13 2006 : 10:37:12 PM
I love that vision of your mother and grandmother, Katie-ell. I can almost see it.....
XOXO, Libbie
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| katie-ell |
Posted - Sep 11 2006 : 09:23:44 AM
Re: Northern Spy -- I'm in Illinois now, north of Chicago. Grew up in Michigan, outside of Holland, where my Grandpa had a great apple orchard -- like Noah, two of each kind is what he planted -- with Transparents, Northern Spy, Snow apples, crab, Macintosh, Sweet apple (? not sure of the name -- yellow skin and flesh and real real sweet) and more that I probably have forgotten. One of my cherished memories is of my Grandma walking through the orchard from their little house to our big farmhouse, picking up fallen apples (windfalls) on the way and putting them in her apron. When she got to our house, she would sit and peel and slice the apples and Mom would make apple crisp and pie and applesauce. I miss them both. |
| BStein |
Posted - Sep 11 2006 : 05:41:34 AM
Here is a website that helps me when I want to bake or make sauce. It tells you what each apple is good for. They don't have all of the varieties that you mentiones, just the varieties my local orchard has, but there are pretty many of the standards.
http://www.lyndfruitfarm.com/apple_characteristics.php
Barbara in Ohio |
| brightmeadow |
Posted - Sep 09 2006 : 11:08:40 AM
We have Spies in our orchard near Kent City, MI. They're a late apple - maybe mid-October there?. I think the season is just about 1-2 weeks later in Michigan than the ones listed for Rittman, OH, which is closer to where I live during the week! Laura that is a great chart. It even had Winesap which I had forgotten about but is a great apple (we don't have those, it would be a good variety to plant..) Also Grimes Golden which we do have - and my husband sneers at (because the apples are so small) He wants to bulldoze the whole orchard, and I'm trying to convince him to leave a few trees.
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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| LJRphoto |
Posted - Sep 09 2006 : 10:48:48 AM
Where do you live Katie-ell? I'm pretty sure I've seen Northern Spy at a local orchard here. I don't think that they're ready yet though.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." -E. B. White
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| katie-ell |
Posted - Sep 09 2006 : 10:45:43 AM
We had a couple of transparents trees -- made the best applesauce! And I love Northern Spy, which I can't find in the markets here. Time to go roadtrippin', a la Frannie from Kentucky, back to Michigan, I do believe. . . . |
| LJRphoto |
Posted - Sep 09 2006 : 06:49:25 AM
Here's another chart - it has transparents and lodis listed. Maybe you can look at several charts and make one of your own in excel. I had an entire tree worth of apples go to waste once because I'd never heard of transparents and I thought it'd be Sept. like every other kind of apple I knew of. It never put on apples like that first year during the time I lived in that house.
http://www.baumanorchards.com/chart/index.htm
another one: http://www.burnhamorchards.com/chart.htm
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