Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Apple Variieties for Organic Commercial Orchard
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 21:30:37 +0100 (BST)
Hello Ed I do not know where you are, I am in the UK and have been looking for apples for a similar brief, for a traditional orchard (trees on M25 rootstocks, 50ft spacings - 12 years to first fruit!). The ones I have short listed have plant breeders rights against them. However ones that appears from North America ex Purdue are Co-op 25/"Scarlet O'Hara" and Prima. Descriptions can be found at http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/pri/coop25.html Apples that seem to do well in Central Europe include Otava and Pinova. Would be interesting to see what you go for Regards
Clifford Cain Bawtry, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK