Apples

Recently it was interesting to learn that there are dozens or hundreds of varieties of apples with different tastes and other characteristics, not just the six or so that we find in our local grocery stores.

Golden Delicious 😋

I did some seasonal work picking apples. So much nicer crisp and sweet straight off the tree.

One cannot just say "apple" and imagine others around the globe will have the same idea in their heads:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apple_cultivars

@Kevin-Eleven
The house I lived in from 1967-1974 had 2 cherry trees a plum tree a flowering crabapple tree and an Irredecent apple tree, or that's what grandpa called it. They were very tart, you could eat them but too many you got a gut ache
They made the best pies. Grandpa being an old farm boy made sure we picked, pitted cherries, peeled cored sliced apples, made jam from plums and crab apples
Pitting cherries was tedious. We saved the juice, added sugar, in about a month we had wine.

@gambrel said
@Kevin-Eleven
The house I lived in from 1967-1974 had 2 cherry trees a plum tree a flowering crabapple tree and an Irredecent apple tree, or that's what grandpa called it. They were very tart, you could eat them but too many you got a gut ache
They made the best pies. Grandpa being an old farm boy made sure we picked, pitted cherries, peeled cored sliced apples, made jam f ...[text shortened]... pples
Pitting cherries was tedious. We saved the juice, added sugar, in about a month we had wine.

@kevin-eleven said
When I was a kid in southern Michigan we lived in a house that had a cherry tree in the back yard, that I could climb. One time my Grandma on my Mom's side stayed with us and bought a bunch of green apples to make applesauce.

Midnight Diner: "Navigating between the sour and the sweet -- never underestimate Life."

@Kevin-Eleven
I appreciate your threads.

@gambrel said
@Kevin-Eleven
I appreciate your threads.

@gambrel said
On the front yard was the flowering crab and a female locust tree
The locust wasn't very climber friendly but the crabapple tree was. The back yard had the rest of the fruit trees and a huge weeping willow. The willow had a tire swing. Grandpa wouldn't let us build a treehouse
He knew too many kids back in his day that fell from them
Granpa fell from a barn roof, injure ...[text shortened]... it up or hold food down. A local doctor, a chiropractor, adjusted his neck, he fully recovered then.

@contenchess said
Golden Delicious 😋

Cox's Orange Pippin

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Cox's Orange Pippin

@kevin-eleven said
Recently it was interesting to learn that there are dozens or hundreds of varieties of apples with different tastes and other characteristics, not just the six or so that we find in our local grocery stores.

Worcester Pearmain is an excellent apple, although it doesn't have much of a shelf-life. I've also got Howgate Wonders in the garden, a decent eater and a better cooker than a Bramley. I've got a third tree that I've not been able to identify.