I have what was sold to me as an Old Fashioned Winesap at the farm that has been a really good tree. I normally leave all of these apples for the deer, but this year they looked so good I brought home a few gallons. I will turn these into chips.
Is everyone having a good year for apples, crabs & pears?? Guys who live near our camp say the crop is really good this year. Last year - late frost put the clinkers to 'em.
Is everyone having a good year for apples, crabs & pears?? Guys who live near our camp say the crop is really good this year. Last year - late frost put the clinkers to 'em.
Is everyone having a good year for apples, crabs & pears?? Guys who live near our camp say the crop is really good this year. Last year - late frost put the clinkers to 'em.
My remaining old trees all put on fruit this year. I pruned 2 very hard like a dozen to 15 screwdriver handle sized whips n competing leaders ontop of the usual prune. 2 trees are half young and half close to death branches. The close to death ones have apples and newer shoots are bare.
Last year I set a waist high Atago Pear tree and was surprised this spring to see that it had set fruit. I pulled all off except 2 pears, which grew well. Today they looked ripe so I tried one. The taste and crispiness blew me away. And when have you seen any fruit look so good without spraying.....
It's too early for me personally to say for certain about disease because mine was just planted last year. However, it has a good reputation, and I expect it to be just fine. I saw no FB this year on the tree, and the leaves are spotless. This pear reminds me of Olympic Giant, but they say that Atago fruit will get even bigger.
This pear is Moonglow. You can see the red blush starting to form on the fruit exposed to the sun. This blush increases as they ripen. The fruit would remind you of Kieffer and the drop time is close to Kieffer but a bit earlier. DR is bulletproof.