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El Toro

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Picked these Stayman apples in SE PA. Trees were loaded, we picked this basket in a few minutes with no climbing. This basket will hold
1/2 bushel and the cost was $10.00 that included
a 1/2 gallon of their cider too. We picked a bushel of Mutsu apples at another orchard in PA earlier this month. They're from Japan originally and are known as Crispin since the 1960's. Hal
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They look great, I wanna take one out of your basket,,,, but its a picture. How about making apple crisp, or apple sauce? Apples were pretty good here in NY too. JayinNY
 
Congratulations! Glad to see the fruit.

Here in southern MO, we've had some cold springs in the last couple of years with late frosts. Our home orchard of 17 apple trees, each a different variety, produced very little fruit this year. Sure hope next year is better.

Speaking of apples, does anyone know of a good website which explains pruning with good pictures?

Christopher
 
Watch that second one from the left with the coddling moth hole in it. Should have a worm inside that one!!
 
Here's a web site for pruning. You probably should call your local extension agent in your area too since the pruning may be a little different. My late father-in-law knew how to prune fruit trees and grape vines and when to do it since they had a large orchard. He was always talking about the York Imperial apples. They were a crooked apple, but very hard and good keepers. They always made apple butter in a copper kettle. I think my wife's sister ended up with that kettle. My late mother-in-law had the recipe memorized for making apple butter as to how much sugar and gallons of cider were needed. She knew how many apples were needed too. Some of your blossoms make have froze this past Spring causing a poor crop of apples. It happens here in the mid-atlantic if we get warm days too early and trees start to bloom and then we get a cold snap. Not much anyone can do to control the weather. In 1990 we had a warm spring in Feb and I plowed garden and planted potatoes in March then it turned cold & wet. Had to replant the potatoes. Hal

http://eap.mcgill.ca/CPTFP_7.htm
 
Hard to beat a Macintosh. Does anyone still grow spies? We used to hunt rabbits arouns an apple orchard and I remember those big apples. Never cared much for Jonathons (sp) or other sweet apples,except red delicious.

Larry in Michigan
 
Nothern Spies are grown in PA. My nephew get's them every year. I hate Red Delicous when they become mealy and we never pick them. Hal
 
My Gandpa always said, there are worse things than finding a worm in your apple-half a worm! :D Greg
 
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