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Perhaps not the best apple of all time, but the event it heralds has no match in the calendar of fruit.
The above Lodi apple is the first of the 2018 apple harvest.
I got it yesterday in Connecticut. I expect to see this variety up here in Massachusetts in the next week or so, barring misadventure.
I, too, look forward to the first fresh apples of the season. None here yet.
ReplyDeleteI do need to check more often at a nearby Sunday afternoon farmer's market. A couple years ago there was an orchardist who has Mollies Delicious and Chenago Strawberry along with a couple others I don't recall. I didn't see him there last year.
We don't usually see Mollie until the end of August. And these early Lodi are frankly not so hot. But I look forward to Vista Bella soon, and maybe some Williams Pride.
DeleteStumbled across your blog trying to learn if July is a bad time for apples. Here in Upstate New York, my favorite apple, Empire, have not been good lately. This week I tied Fuji and they are marginal too. Is it the drought? Is there a better varietal for summer?
ReplyDeletetypo: should read "apples" before "Empire"
DeleteEmpires are harvested in the fall, so by July they are pretty long in the tooth.
DeleteFor Fuji, try to score some from New Zealand or Chile. They are harvested (down there) in our spring and still have some life in them.
Or, find an early apple that you like. Vista Bella is coming soon, for instance; maybe that will scratch the itch for now.