applesandpears

12/23/2023.  We have sold out of apples and evergreen bundles for 2023.  We hope to add to the variety of apples next fall.

Our apple trees are:

• Oriole - a softer early apple which has a distinctive flavor all its own.

• Zestar! - one of the crisper early apples and some people prefer the flavor over honey crisp.

• Haralson - a favorite cooking apple which stays moderately firm upon cooking.  It has a good apple flavor but is not as sweet as Honey Gold.

  • Haralred - a redder version of Haralson that tends to be somewhat sweeter than Haralson.

• Honeygold - a cross between Haralson and yellow delicious.  A very good eating apple that is sweet with a tender skin.

• Honey Crisp - the one that everyone talks about.  Very crisp and sweet.  Best for fresh eating, but I have not found an apple that does not make an excellent pie!

• Keepsake - one of the parents of Honey Crisp.  This apple does not develop its true flavor until December.  Very crisp and a sweet apple. It will keep under normal refrigeration until May.

• We do not use any chemical thinners on the trees and hand thin each tree to provide the size and spacing needed for the fruit to mature to a nice size.

  • We let the apples remain on the tree as long as possible to allow the starches to develop into sugars resulting in sweeter apples.

 Our pear trees are:

• Summercrisp - an early pear which is slightly sweet and crisp.  

• Lucsious - a later pear, sweet and juicy with softer flesh.