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Palustris
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| Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 2:29 pm Post subject: Would you Adam and Eve it? |
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The large apple weighs in at about 3/4 of a pound. For comparison the other is a normal size Sunset.
The big one is an old variety called Catshead, because of its shape. It is a cooker. Draw back is that it has a hollow centre which is the favourite home of an earwig or three.
We picked most of the tree, say about 100 lbs!
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That's a whopper Eric!!  A pity the centre houses earwigs though - not a favourite insect of mine.
Have you decided what to do with all those apples you've picked? I made crumbles and apple sauce out of mine but I didn't have anywhere near 100lbs of fruit to contend with.
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Palustris
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Those plus the 500 lbs or so off the other trees will be juiced, pureed and frozen, baked and frozen, eaten raw and finally if they go off shared with the blackbirds etc in Winter.
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That thing is HUGE! I've never heard of that variety, is it an heirloom apple?
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| Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 9:46 pm Post subject: Holey Moley! |
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I'm assuming this isn't genetically modified at all?? Would be interested in knowing if they taste any different.
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Palustris
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Do not know of any 'genetically modified' apple trees, except in as much as all Apple trees have been genetically modified by breeding from the original ,so long ago no one is really sure what the original was. Tastes just like any other cooking apple to me.
It certainly is a very old variety of apple. Cannot find the date for it at present.
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I do miss cooking apples.  Yours looks lovely, Palustris. We've only got two apple trees outside, and they're both for eating. I would like more but we haven't got room for them.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:15 am Post subject: Re: Would you Adam and Eve it? |
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| Palustris wrote: |
The large apple weighs in at about 3/4 of a pound. For comparison the other is a normal size Sunset.
The big one is an old variety called Catshead, because of its shape. It is a cooker. Draw back is that it has a hollow centre which is the favourite home of an earwig or three.
We picked most of the tree, say about 100 lbs! |
Blimey that's huge!
Interesting shape as well. I always think of cookers as being wide, not tall.
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Whoa! That is huge! Congratulations on the hefty harvest! I hope I can also have some sort of big haul some time.
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