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  • From: Pete Tallman <pete_tallman@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Nittany apple
  • Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:53:29 -0600


I agree that York Imperial isn't very interesting at harvest time. They don't
start getting interesting until early to mid December. From December to
February, I like York Imperial for being hard, tart, and juicy -- my kind of
apple -- in contrast to many of the better known varieties in ordinary
refrigeration. I'll probably bring in my crop later today, individually bag
the good ones in zip-loc sandwich bags, then double bag in larger, closed
plastic bags. They keep quite well this way. Best if used by February, but
I've eaten some into May. Their storage abiltiy is second only to Gold Rush
for varieties I grow.

I credit York Imperial for starting me on the road away from the usual
commercial apple varieties. I purchased some York Imperial from a small
orchard in the Hudson Valley, NY one December in early 1980's when I was
living there. I was converted right away and went back the next year for some
grafting wood. Then I started wondering what other interesting apple
varieties might be out there that I had never heard of before. York Imperial
does well for me here.

I was surprised to find some Nittany in my local Whole Foods market in
Colorado a few years back, brought in from West Virginia. Never saw them
again -- I gather they were not a good seller. No surprise. I thought they
were a good alternative to York Imperial if the York crop didn't come in.

Pete Tallman
Longmont, CO zone 5 or so

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