[Magdalen] apples

[P. Dan Brittain]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Charles Wohlers <chadwohl at satucket.com>
wrote:

> Cider usually needs a mixture of varieties. One year we pressed straight
> Macs, and it was pretty bad cider. Adding some wild apples improved it a
> whole lot.
>

​I also have a Jonathon and a Golden delicious, but they aren't bearing
yet.​



>
> Taste one. Does it taste good? Or unripe sour?


​The later.​



> If the latter, toss them in the compost pile, preferably far away from the
> tree.


​That's what I had been doing, but I was wondering ​if I could make chutney
or something like that from them,


​ Understand that apple trees normally drop a fair number of apples early,
especially if there are a lot on the tree to begin with. However, in your
climate, that usually would have happened last month. Up here, it was a
week or two ago.

That's what I had thought, and we had dropped some - but we had that really
hot spell for a couple of weeks, may have done some stress,

>
> Me, I'll have to wait a few months for my Sweet 16's. Meanwhile, started
> picking blueberries (wild & cultivated) and red raspberries today.
>

​My blackberries are finished​, as is their jelly and jam. Didn't get as
many of those this year. I suspect the apricot tree, which was supposed to
be a dwarf, but isn't, shaded some of the canes too much.

Tomatoes are doing really well, start canning some of those this week; and
won't be long till salsa making time.


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P. Dan Brittain
Harrison, Arkansas

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