North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

["Big Swede" <JFrisk@pionet.net>]

I have had excellent fall crop of apples this year.  My Mollie's Delicious
were also very good.  I have Gala ripe right now and they are excellent this
year.  My crop is organic because I have not been able to buy spray
ingredients and have not had time to spray.  Usually Gala is like Jonathan a
misshapen insect ridden mess but this year they are great.  I believe the
hard cold winter finally killed the carryover bugs that give us trouble.  We
had a dry warm summer in SW Iowa which probably helped keep the disease
pressure down.  My later apples also look good.  Judson L. Frisk
----- Original Message -----
From: <edforest55@hotmail.com>
To: <nafex@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:17 AM
Subject: [nafex] Mollies Delicious and Cortland


> These two trees were the best in our orchard this year. Mollies
> Delicious is really very good, juicy, sweet, balanced, a bit on the
> sweet side, subtle pleasant aroma. I think I read that it is disease
> resistant, well, it didn't have any this first year that its born for
> me.
> And Cortland, wow, right off the tree, fantastic apple, I used to
> scoff at the thought of a popular supermarket apple being any good
> but this one, grown at home, is far better than the ones in the
> store. (I've heard this mentioned before on this group). Now I'm a
> believer.
> I also fruited Ruby this year, not good, not juicy and not sweet.
> Perhaps I picked it too early. Anyone know?
> My Honecrisps this year were a disappointment, so far, great texture,
> but as Ed Fackler had mentioned,  and to which I vociferously
> disagreed at the time, "lacks flavor". Well last year they were very
> flavorful, but this year I do indeed know what Ed was talking about.
> It has been a hot summer, and dry, I'm wondering if that is why. Or,
> perhaps they need to ripen a bit longer. This may add to the theory
> that they develop better flavor in cold areas.
> Oh! Actually, the very best apple this year, perhaps of any I've
> tasted, was our Whitney Crabs! This may be the first year they have
> been good, or the first year we picked them at peek, but I could not
> stop eating them, yellow flesh, juicy, rich, crisp and fantastic. But
> a week later, bug- infested and mushy. I looked up Whitney crab and
> read that they are "good for sauce and pickled" Does anyone else
> think they're good for fresh eating?
> Kevin B
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------LIST GUIDELINES----------------------
>
> 1) Please sign your posting.  Include climate and location information if
relevent.
> 2) Attached files will be stripped from your messages.  Post attachments
on the www.YahooGroups.com website.
> 3) To unsubscribe send a BLANK message to
>         nafex-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
> 4) Include only pertinent comments/questions when replying to a posting
and NOT the entire message (especially if the initial posting was large).
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>
>


------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->
FREE COLLEGE MONEY
CLICK HERE to search
600,000 scholarships!
http://us.click.yahoo.com/47cccB/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/VAOolB/TM
---------------------------------------------------------------------~->





------------------LIST GUIDELINES----------------------

1) Please sign your posting.  Include climate and location information if 
relevent.
2) Attached files will be stripped from your messages.  Post attachments on 
the www.YahooGroups.com website.
3) To unsubscribe send a BLANK message to 
        nafex-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
4) Include only pertinent comments/questions when replying to a posting and 
NOT the entire message (especially if the initial posting was large). 

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/