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I live in upstate NY, about 1 1/4 hours east of Buffalo near Lake Ontario. It' is awesome apple growing country up here! There are so many family owned farms in this area that grow apples, you can't go 2 miles down the road without a farm market or roadside stand- and they all grown different things. I worked at an orchard for several years- they had about 60 varieties they sold (plus lots of fruits besides apples). They range from new test orchards (with Cornell University) to very, very old varieties that are so delish! We'd have customer's that would drive up annually from PA to get apples from this area. There is such a huge variety they grown around here, it would be impossibly to list them all, or to even pick one favorite variety! Every weekend at the market we'd have samples going on all day, just so you could figure out what kind you like to go pick! The winters stink here, but we have some awesome fruit/vegetables in the summers.
My DD and hers lived in Lockport. I hated to visit due to Transit and the traffic it had. If I could find the rarer types I'd have no need to grow them. I don't mind paying and I just make enough for DW and I. But they DD and hers are now in TX.
One thing about the winters here is that it 's good for sweetening the apple crop. 1 1/4 hrs would bring you closer to Syracuse. Where are you talking about?
I had met a guy from Wolcott who had a family orchard business though I'd never been there. I won't go into how I met him.
I grew up in Ketchikan Alaska. There were wild crab apples growing in the yard. The growing season was so short that the apples never got to the size of a dime, and were hard, sour and green.
Dad used to pick them and make jelly. They were too small to individually pick so he would cook up the apples, twigs, leaves etc; and strain it. Made the best jelly.
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I grew up in Ketchikan Alaska. There were wild crab apples growing in the yard. The growing season was so short that the apples never got to the size of a dime, and were hard, sour and green.
Dad used to pick them and make jelly. They were too small to individually pick so he would cook up the apples, twigs, leaves etc; and strain it. Made the best jelly.
I have no idea about the common or less common apples here in western Washington, but imagine all of them would grow here.
I have a Gravenstein and Granny Smith in my yard, both 40-50 years old. I get very few Gravensteins because I have no good polinator nearby. I do maybe get 12-20 a year. The Grannys, I get tons, before I started pruning maybe thousands, now maybe a hundred. The neighbors called them poison apples when I moved in, because they were so sour. I have found if I let the apples get hit with frost they sweeten up a bit and are edible.
I get lots of scab and coddling moth, some apple maggot. I could spray but chemicals are expensive and I can buy all the apples I can eat for the cost of one application. So I only eat a few, and then only cut up.
My next door neighbor has a Golden Delicious, in about the same shape as mine.
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