[NAFEX] crab apples

Road's End Farm organic87 at frontiernet.net
Thu Aug 5 17:46:36 EDT 2010


On Aug 4, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Deb S wrote:

> I want to make crab apple jelly this year and was wondering if using  
> apples picked from municipal plantings would work?  Most of the  
> apples are small _1-1/2 inch diameter.
>

You might want to check that the city hasn't sprayed them with  
anything that's only supposed to go on ornamentals and not on edibles  
-- they may not be thinking of them as edible fruit.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale






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