Very best New Year's wishes to you, dear readers!
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This busy fall included a healthy 17 "new" (to me) apples, some quite good. I published 23 posts in a single month (October).
I still owe you reports about some of the interesting orchards I visited last fall. Also per annual custom, I'll be applying my rating system to the new 17 in early February.
September apples are now classified according to the pomological calendar.
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Onward
I hope that for my regular readers this change is at least no worse an experience than it had been in 2023.
Be of good cheer: there is nothing similarly ambitious in the works for 2025.
Have an excellent year, and may your apples never grow mealy!
Warm greetings from Ukraine, the land of Reinette Simirenko! :-)
ReplyDeleteWhere in Ukraine? My father's family came from a town near Ivano-Frankivsk.
DeleteHuh, that's cool! (I'm from Vinnytsia).
Delete(And Simirenko is actually from Cherkasy region, but anyways...)
DeleteHi Adam,
ReplyDeleteGreat website! Reading about the flavors of apples in winter makes spring seem closer! Also, I have an apple you may wish to add to your taste tests. Whitney Crab Apple; had my first small crop last year and they are delicious; very small ( 4 bites?) crisp, fresh taste, sweet tart rather than tart, flavor rather like sparkling non alcoholic apple cider, and altogether delightful. Some say due to taste variants there are two types with the same name , one tasting a lot better? If so, this is the good one,( bought from trees of antiquity as a sapling). This is an early crab apple, and my new favorite to eat straight off the tree. I would love to read your assessment of it. Happy Eating! Mimi
Well I would love to try those Whitneys someday. Early, you say? That strikes me as niche of opportunity: I do not know of any decent early crabs.
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