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Subject: Re: [nafex] Keeping apples
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:51:11 -0700
That brings up a thought. I have 4 Mutsu apples left from the fall. They
Are soft but they have flavor. Recently bought Fugis from the grocery.
Crisp but bland. Is it the storage? Are Fugis being Red Deliciousized? Or
is it just me? I think I will switch to Granny Smith for a while.
Naomi
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Subject: Re: [nafex] Keeping apples
Jim,
Fellow who used to run a small commercial orchard here had a big walk-in
cooler - but had to keep wet towels over baskets of apples in long-term
storage to keep them from shriveling.
I remember visiting with him at the beginning of a fall apple season, and
having him tell me he had some Arkansas Blacks from the previous year that
were better than they'd even been, but couldn't sell them because his wife
had gotten tired of keeping the towels wet over the summer, and they were
shriveled, and no one would buy them - even though the quality was vastly
superior to what they'd been when they came off the trees almost a year
earlier.