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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] crab apples
  • Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 17:46:36 -0400


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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