Sunday, February 25, 2018

Honeycrisp vs. Evercrisp smackdown

Honeycrisp and Evercrisp apples

You know Honeycrisp (right?) even if you don't follow this blog. If you read my regular reports, perhaps you recall last fall's Evercrisp.

As its name suggests, Evercrisp, at right, takes aim at Honeycrisp and seeks to fill its shoes. Not by being boldly different, but by being the same only better.

So, this is personal. Let's see how things shake down.

Monday, February 19, 2018

Time to prune the trees

apple tree pruning Clarkdale

A small part of the orchard last Saturday at Clarkdale Fruit Farms

Sunday, February 18, 2018

February thaw threatens fruit harvest

47 degrees (Fahrenheit) tomorrow. 63 on Tuesday; 69 on Wednesday, and 44 on Thursday.

Photo: MChance666 (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons

That's the current extended forecast for apple country in Massachusetts from the National Weather Service. After tonight, there are no evening lows in the forecast below 40° F.

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Friday, February 2, 2018

The 2017 stars

Imbolc, that old holiday when winter secretly pivots towards the spring, is the time I revisit those apples that I have tasted in the previous year and rate them according to my star system.

A collage of apples