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

I would say the cleanest apples probably are Chieftain (an Iowa State Univ
cross of Red Delicious and Jonathan) and Empire.  The only summer apple that
is fairly clean is Washington Strawberry, an antique variety. An early fall
cooking apple that is clean is Pumpkin Sweet.  It also bears every year.
The year before we had a very mild winter and the insect pressure was very
bad.  Judson L. Frisk
----- Original Message -----
From: <dwoodard@becon.org>
To: <nafex@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 1:06 AM
Subject: [nafex] Re: Mollies Delicious and Cortland; "organic" growing


> Judson, in a normal year, do you have any apples that seem
> consistently resistant to disease, insects, or both under your
> conditions? You may have acquired some valuable information.
>
> Doug Woodard
> St. Catharines, Ontario
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> --- In nafex@y..., "Big Swede" <JFrisk@p...> wrote:
> > 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
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