Apple Season

 

An apple for every taste!
We grow over twenty varieties of apples that range from small tart green apples with a red blush to huge sweet yellow apples. Some people have a favorite apple that they come back for year after year and others like to mix their bags and surprise themselves later. Here is a list of all the major varieties we grow (in order from early season to late), but there are more becoming available!

Your Perfect Apple  
 

Ginger Gold: (Chance Seedling)
An early Golden Delicious, sweet, dense, tasty; all purpose.


Zestar!: (Available 2009)
From the same Minnesota breeding program that introduced Honeycrisp, the fruit is crisp and juicy, an excellent dessert apple that keeps for up to 8 weeks.

Sansa: (available 2008) (Gala x Akane)
Breed in Japan, an excellent dessert apple resembling Gala.

Akane: (Jonathan x Worcester Permain)
Dense, tart; all-purpose apple.

Paula red:
Tart, all-purpose apple; similar to Cortland.

Gravenstein:
Tart, all-purpose apple; green with red stripes.

Honeycrisp: (Macoun x Honeygold)
Sweet, large, explosively juicy apple; all-purpose, stores well. A customer favorite!

Golden Supreme:
Early Golden Delicious type apple, with smoother skin and higher flavored than its parent.

Early Fuji: (Available 2008)
Early sports of Fuji that ripen 6 to 8 weeks before its parent.

Crimsoncrisp: (Available 2008)
Attractive crimson red color. Crisp texture and tart complex flavor.

McIntosh:
Moderately tart, best for fresh eating and sauce; green with red blush. A New England favorite.

Gala: (Kidd's Orange x Golden Delicious)
Sweet and juicy, Delicious type apple; red stripes over yellow-orange background.

Cortland: (Ben Davis x McIntosh)
Moderately tart, non-browning flesh, all purpose apple; green with red blush.

Shizuka:
Early Mutsu - very large yellow-green sweet tart apple.

Macoun: (McIntosh x Jersey Black)
Sweet, crisp, dessert apple; dark, purplish red over green.

Honeygold: (Golden Delicious x Haralson)
Similar to Golden Delicious but with a more complex "honey" flavor. Stores well.

Empire: (McIntosh x Red Delicious)
moderately sweet all-purpose apple; dark red stripes over yellow background color. Usually a smaller apple perfect for lunch boxes.

Spencer: (McIntosh x Golden Delicious)
Pink-red blush on green; large sized apple. Sweet flavor that some say has hint of cinamon spice.

Hampshire Mac: (McIntosh Sport)
A McIntosh-type apple discovered by Erick Leadbeater of Contoocook, NH, ripening three weeks later than a standard Mac.

Creston: (Available 2009) (Golden Delicious x NJ 381049)
Breed at the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre - Summerland, B.C., Creston is similar to Jonagold but more firm and better storage quality. Large sweet yellow fruit with red blush.

Red Delicious:
Sweet dessert apple; red stripes over green.

Golden Delicious:
sweet, all purpose apple; yellow, sometimes with a red blush.

Jonagold: (Golden Delicious x Jonathan)
sweet but tart, all purpose apple; red blush over yellow background color.

Idared: (Jonathen x Wagener)
Tart at harvest, sweetens in storage, all-purpose apple; red fruit.

Cameo: (Chance seedling)
Firm and crisp with highly appealing sub acid aromatic flavor. Very similar to old-fa shined Red Delicious.

Mutsu: (aka Crispin) (Golden Delicious x Indo)
All purpose apple; very large, light green to yellow.

Liberty:
(Macoun x Purdue)
Similar to macoun, sweet juicy white flesh, deep red on green skin.

Suncrisp: (Golden Delicious x Cox's Orange Pippen)
Sweet idly sub-acid apple, dual purpose apple with yellow flesh and red blush. Stores up to 6 months.

Fuji: (Ralls Janet x Delicious)
Sweet dense apple, stores extremely well.

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