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Topaz Apple: Ripening Late September, and What to Plant Beside It

Topaz Apple: Ripening Late September, and What to Plant Beside It

Topaz is a Czech-bred apple valued for its sweet-tart bite, firm crisp flesh, and a harvest window that lands late in the season.

Sweet Sixteen Apple: Ripening September, and What to Plant Beside It

Sweet Sixteen Apple: Ripening September, and What to Plant Beside It

Sweet Sixteen is a September apple bred for the home orchard: sweet, crisp, and famous for a cherry-candy flavor note that sets it apart from most…

SnowSweet Apple: Ripening October, and What to Plant Beside It

SnowSweet Apple: Ripening October, and What to Plant Beside It

SnowSweet is a cold-hardy apple that ripens in October, carries a sweet, slightly tart flavor, and works equally well eaten out of hand or baked into a…

Snapp Staymen Apple: Ripening Late October, and What to Plant Beside It

Snapp Staymen Apple: Ripening Late October, and What to Plant Beside It

Snapp Staymen is a heavy-cropping strain of the old Staymen apple, prized for its dense, tangy flesh and its late harvest.

Rome Beauty Apple: Worth Growing, If Fire Blight Is Not Your Problem

Rome Beauty Apple: Worth Growing, If Fire Blight Is Not Your Problem

Rome Beauty earns its keep in one place: the oven, not the fruit bowl. If you want a tree that produces reliable baking apples in zones 5 through 8 and…

Red Delicious Apple: One of the Few That Shrugs Off Fire Blight

Red Delicious Apple: One of the Few That Shrugs Off Fire Blight

Red Delicious is one of the rare apple varieties that USU Extension rates as resistant to fire blight, a bacterial disease that wipes out entire branches…

Priscilla Apple: What It Tastes Like and What Pollinates It

Priscilla Apple: What It Tastes Like and What Pollinates It

Priscilla is a dessert apple with crisp, mildly sub-acid flesh, and it needs help from another tree to set a real crop.

Paula Red Apple: Worth Growing, If Fire Blight Is Not Your Problem

Paula Red Apple: Worth Growing, If Fire Blight Is Not Your Problem

Paula Red delivers one of the earliest home-orchard harvests of the season, a soft, tart apple best eaten fresh or turned into sauce within weeks of…

Ozark Gold Apple: What It Tastes Like and What Pollinates It

Ozark Gold Apple: What It Tastes Like and What Pollinates It

Ozark Gold is a yellow-skinned apple bred for sweet, lightly tart eating and general kitchen use, with firm yellow flesh that holds up under heat.

Northern Spy Apple: Ripening October, and What to Plant Beside It

Northern Spy Apple: Ripening October, and What to Plant Beside It

Northern Spy is a late-season apple, ripening in October, prized for its tart bite and its unmatched reputation as a pie apple in the Northeast.

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