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MAK

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Summer apples - and a long fruiting season
« on: April 11, 2012, 07:50:57 am »
Last year my neighbour was giving me a light yellow apple ( by the bucket) in June/July. She simply called it a summer apple. My daughter and I were still collecting her different apples ( off a dry lawn) on the 19th December and we picked her Kiwi in late November.

The neighbour is 83 and fills her store with apples.

My point is that for every fruit she has there are 3 varieties that fruit in succession. How clever -Imagine what a pain it is with a glut of cherries from 3 trees - her just kept flowing. She could reap a full harvest and spread the work rather than struggle with a very heavy mincrop ( that said we made cider and fed the pigs with her mass of apples) 
I think I will document her fruit yield in my diary this year .

Anyone hear of the "summer apple" that fruits so early.?
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Dan

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Re: Summer apples - and a long fruiting season
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2012, 08:08:26 am »
Not in the UK, where Discovery seems to be the earliest cropping variety.

Can you post a photo when you start to get this year's crop please, would be really interested to have it identified!

MAK

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Re: Summer apples - and a long fruiting season
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2012, 08:23:32 am »
Yes will post a photo as soon as the "summer apples" are ready.
Just to say that we do have very cold but short winters here and locals delay the start of the planting season because of late frost.  So the apple tree must have a very vigorous Early growth and the taste and texture of the apple seemed like a normal autumn apple. Odd
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deepinthewoods

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Re: Summer apples - and a long fruiting season
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2012, 03:04:52 pm »
could you not take a cutting? or graft a scion on to one of your trees?

chairmanphil

  • Joined Feb 2012
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Re: Summer apples - and a long fruiting season
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2012, 04:09:56 pm »
is it a cooker or a sweet apple? if it is a cooker it could be arthur turner, they claim it is ready here end of july.
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MAK

  • Joined Nov 2011
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Re: Summer apples - and a long fruiting season
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2012, 05:30:01 pm »
Sweet apple - we have never seen a cooker here in France - There is a market we go to who sell an enormous variety of apple and pear - all shapes, colours and sizes but no obvious cooker.
Let me know if you know of a name of apple in France equivalent to our Bramley or similar.
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