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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

Alan, where are you based?

I used to shop at an orchard in central NJ that grew Liberty, along  
with several other apples.  One October they held a blind "taste  
test" as part of an apple festival, and the Liberty apple won - it  
beat the Macintosh handily.

Now, NJ is really too far south to grow a good Mac, and I preferred  
both the Jonathans and the Stayman Winesaps at that orchard to the  
Libertys, but Liberty is a tasty apple.  I would have thought it's  
two biggest defects are its relatively small size and its narrow  
picking window for top quality.

Ginda

On Mar 22, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Alan Haigh wrote:

> You can grow scab and cedar-apple-rust resistant varieties but you  
> may have trouble selling them.  I managed a small commercial  
> orchard that wasn't organic but we used an extreme low-spray of 2  
> applications of imidan with summer oil in the first doable ap.   
> Liberty was the primary cultivar and they were gorgeous (the site  
> was open and windy with little soot or speck) but we couldn't give  
> them away.  Members will say we didn't harvest at the correct time  
> but they weren't there and they'd be wrong.  It may have better  
> potential in other parts of the country however but it has bombed  
> here as a commercial.  It lacks the Mac crunch and aroma and is  
> just a so-so apple.
>
> Goldrush is the only D R that I've tried that I consider world- 
> class based on my taste and scores of others but it gets plenty of  
> CAR and insect damage of course though it's more curc resistant  
> than most.  You'll need at least 3 aps of Surround at 10-day  
> intervals from pedal-fall.  Enterprise is pretty good also.
>
> I'd approach this project  with caution before a major cash or  
> labor investment- experiment first.
>
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