| I have not yet succeeded in fruiting anything but Jonathan (shade, deer, etc.) but I have to put in a word for Ashmeads Kernal, which I can buy locally. True, it is a very small apple, but the guy I buy it from seems to have some fruit (on his one tree) every year. And it ROCKS as a high-flavored apple. It has very high sugar and very high acid, it's crunchy, and the apple flavor is pretty decent. It's my family's favorite apple, and we go to a lot of trouble to buy it each year. I've been consistently disappointed by locally grown Cox apples. They are fine, but nothing super exciting. I keep trying to get a hold of Karmijn apples. The deer seem not to want the tree I planted this year to survive. And they already ate the one fruit that set on a branch I grafted years ago. So, I guess the deer like it. (They like my Ashmeads kernel, too. I have a large branch grafted to a native crab, and it sets fruit most years, but the deer get all the fruit well before it ripens. No, there isn't any good way to fence the deer out.) Ginda eastern MA, zone 6 who's had an even more frustrating year in the garden than most. Between deer, insect pests, chipmunks, rain during flowing, and drought during midseason, I'll be lucky to get a handful of tomatoes and a couple of Jonathan apples this year. I'm not even getting many raspberries - the drought has reduced the yield and a hungry blue jay has discovered the crop.) On Jul 18, 2010, at 1:01 AM, Richard J. Ossolinski wrote:
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