When to Pick Apples in Manitoba, and How Long They Keep
Pick Manitoba apples by stage, not calendar: firm flesh, background skin color turned from green to yellow or blush, seeds gone brown, and the fruit…
When to Pick Apples in Maine, and How Long They Keep
Apples in Maine are ready to pick from mid-August through late October, depending on variety, with fresh eating varieties coming off first and the hard…
When to Pick Apples in Louisiana, and How Long They Keep
Most Louisiana apple trees produce a single crop that ripens sometime between June and August, well ahead of the punishing late-summer heat, and that…
When to Pick Apples in Michigan, and How Long They Keep
How to tell a Michigan apple is ripe by seed color and background hue, and which varieties keep through winter versus need eating fast.
When to Pick Apples in Kentucky, and How Long They Keep
In the Louisville area, early-season apples come off the tree by late summer, mid-season varieties come down in September, and late-season keepers hang…
When to Pick Apples in Kansas, and How Long They Keep
Kansas apple harvest runs from late August through mid-October, staged by variety rather than a fixed date, and how long each apple lasts afterward…
When to Pick Apples in Iowa, and How Long They Keep
Iowa apples are ready when the fruit’s stage matches the calendar window set by frost, not by a fixed date on the wall.
When to Pick Apples in Indiana, and How Long They Keep
Harvest in Indiana runs from mid-August for the earliest varieties through late October for the latest, and how long any given apple lasts afterward…
When to Pick Apples in Illinois, and How Long They Keep
Apple harvest in Illinois is read off the fruit, not the calendar. The reference window that matters is built around Chicago’s own frost data: last…
When to Pick Apples in Idaho, and How Long They Keep
Idaho apple harvest and storage depends on where in the state you’re growing.