They make the best jelly. True dolgo won’t be ready until about Labor Day here.View attachment 79727
My dolgos about to become jelly - if something doesnt eat them in the next week
When we moved here, almost 40 years ago, there was a planted apple tree that died back. I left the rootstock grow back but didn’t know how to protect it from sunscauld. So it died back and the next time it grew back, I shaded the trunk.Your the finder of Big dog too? How'd that one come about?
I don’t think any apples are ready to harvest here, but Norland should be getting very close. I only see one cluster of apples on my Notland this year.^ ^ ^ ^ Nice size for deer to chomp on. Have you tasted them yet?
I had a message that the only red apple he had was Pink Pearl. The orchard is on the edge of a small town where Red Splendor is in the yards. I suspect Red Splendor in the background.View attachment 80119
This is a red leafed seedling from a bag of Crabby Crisp apples I bought at a central Minnesota orchard. The year on the tag indicates I bought the bag of apples in 2018. Seeded that fall and I remember in the spring selecting out the red stemmed/ red leafed varieties. I need to find where this tree was planted as the apple pictured are on scion tacked on a wild crab.
Currently this fruit is slightly smaller than B118 fruit.
This bag of apples was purchased from the guy who developed KinderKrisp.
How do you keep your apple sauce - can it or freeze it?View attachment 79995
Apple sauce making should start in 40-50 days.
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The dolgo seedling I call Red Dog is doing well with recent rains.
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Do you already have a post somewhere with the details of how you make sauce? If not could you give the steps on your process?We freeze it.
Do you already have a post somewhere with the details of how you make sauce? If not could you give the steps on your process?
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Rinse and pick through the apples or crabs. Crabs the dice of Trailman, Rescue, or Dolgo are just cooked with a bit of water.
Definitely cut larger apples in half and cutting apple crabs the size of chestnut crabs in half speeds cooking.
Then we run the cooked apples through one of these. Sometimes called Foley Food Processor or Chore Girl. All kinds of names for them.
We don’t add sugar or cinnamon. We add what we want just before eating.