Tonight we share the first apples from our new Ballarat apple with grandchildren - it is their favorite apple. When we moved last year we had to leave behind a 40 something year old tree that each year produced as if it would never produce again - but did. I am told ballarat is now a heritage apple.
Nice apple, that Ballarat - "large, green with a red blush, and with creamy white flesh", she's a cooker, generally. Grandchildren, eh Fred! I have one of those now. Not onto apple yet, still a lactavore.
"Why do we need so many different kinds of apples? Because there are so many different kinds of folks. A person has a right to gratify his legitimate tastes. If he wants 20 or 40 kinds of apples for his personal use, running from 'Early Harvest' to 'Roxbury Russet', he should be afforded the privilege....There is merit in variety itself. It provides more points of contact with life, and leads away from uniformity and monotony." -Liberty Hyde Bailey in 'The Apple Tree', 1922
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Wow ! first the spuds, and now the apples .... what else to come ?
Pears next, then hazels and walnuts, hops, blueberries and ulluco and anu.
Then the next round.
Tonight we share the first apples from our new Ballarat apple with grandchildren - it is their favorite apple.
When we moved last year we had to leave behind a 40 something year old tree that each year produced as if it would never produce again - but did. I am told ballarat is now a heritage apple.
Nice apple, that Ballarat - "large, green with a red blush, and with creamy white flesh", she's a cooker, generally. Grandchildren, eh Fred! I have one of those now. Not onto apple yet, still a lactavore.
"Why do we need so many different kinds of apples? Because there are so many different kinds of folks. A person has a right to gratify his legitimate tastes. If he wants 20 or 40 kinds of apples for his personal use, running from 'Early Harvest' to 'Roxbury Russet', he should be afforded the privilege....There is merit in variety itself. It provides more points of contact with life, and leads away from uniformity and monotony." -Liberty Hyde Bailey in 'The Apple Tree', 1922
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