It's not been a good year here for Apples; it's been far too hot, and far too dry. We have just a few Bramleys, and these ones. I'd not heard of Jonagold before I bought my tree, but it came highly recommended by my nurserywoman.
I planted our tree in March of 2013, and this year has been its first pukka fruiting year.
These are BIG apples. The flesh is quite firm, and the flavour is excellent. I think I made a good choice.
We haven't yet tried them as cooking apples, but I have a feeling they will be very good.
I need to plant another couple of Apple trees this winter/spring, one of which will probably be a Golden Delicious; not sure yet what the other will be; maybe a Braeburn.
How about a Gravenstein? Makes delicious pies.
ReplyDeleteI've not heard of it; I'll have a look, thanks.
DeleteNice looking apples.
ReplyDeleteThey're amazingly BIG, in fact I think they're the biggest I've ever seen.
DeleteI don't doubt your golden delicious will be much tastier than monoculture supermarket golden delicious which are all the same size but definitely not golden and not delicious.
ReplyDeleteI harvested 4 baskets of apples yeserday as the crop was heavy and the branch bent almost to the ground. I was pleased my apples were all different shapes and sizes and different shades of red and green, quite natural looking in fact, definitely not regimented EU shop apples. :-)
DeleteI've always been told that home grown Golden Delicious are totally different to commercial grown. We'll see!
DeleteIt has its compensations, a poor apple harvest, you won't have to worry about how to store them because there won't be any to store.
ReplyDeleteYou're right. There's nothing worse than seeing them all rot in their boxes, one after the other.
DeleteA really flavourful apple, or any other fruit, is hard to come by unless you grow your own. Those look delicious.
ReplyDeleteWe get given bags of fruit but I dont think we have ever received apples. Our own pears and apples did not do well but I see our neighbour up the road has huge pears. I hope we get a few.
Pears usually do well in hotter climes; Apples like cooler weather. The Pears here are delicious; the Apples usually are not.
DeleteI see you only gave this fruit a 6/10 at last year's tasting. Have they improved this year? It is a massive fruit!
ReplyDeleteI think they've ripened better this year. They are much better than last year's crop.
DeleteOur new place will have apple trees but sadly no cherry or peach.
ReplyDeleteApples and Plums do best in Blighty. Plant a Victoria Plum (if there isn't already one). I miss them here.
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DeleteWe have many apple orchards close by and it seems it is a good year. I bought Gala and Ida red's this week.
ReplyDeleteMost of the French Apples are tasteless.
DeleteA friend of my husband's brought us a bag of golden colored apples from his orchard in the North Carolina mountains one time, and they were wonderful...nothing like the Golden Delicious you find in grocery stores.
ReplyDeleteI envy those of you who can grow apples. It's far too hot here for them. Yours look great....and a small harvest is better than no harvest at all!
Apples certainly prefer a cooler climate; the UK is perfect. The UK is also a huge producer of Cider.
DeleteWe occasionally see Jonagold here but they don't travel all that well and have often lost their flavour. That is definitely true of Golden Delicious too.
ReplyDeleteWe can buy Braeburns here, but they are nothing like the ones you buy in the UK. Golden Delicious are strange fruits; often they are sweetly flavourless, but if home grown, completely different.
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