In three years time, our goal is to have 100 apple trees planted, give or take a few. Last year we planted 20. We have 36 apple and 4 pear on order for delivery this month for spring planting. We've been focusing on Old "Heritage" varieties, though we've also included a few Modern varieties. Our go-to nursery is Century Farm Orchards.
Our current (and on-order) inventory includes...- Kinnaird's Choice
- Newtown (Albemarle) Pippin
- Old Fashioned Limbertwig (aka Red Limbertwig)
- Ralls Janet
- VA Beauty
- Virginia Winesap
- William's Favorite
- Lowry
- American Golden Russet
- Arkansas Black
- Aunt Rachel
- Bevan's Favorite
- Blacktwig (Mammoth)
- Enterprise
- Father Abraham
- Florina
- Gala
- Grimes Golden
- Johnson Keeper
- Joseph's Apple
- King David
- Liberty
- Mary Reid
- Pink Lady (aka Cripps Pink)
- Roxbury Russet
- Stayman Winesap
- Swiss Limbertwig
- Terry Winter
- Yates
Magnolia Holler
Wow, what a variety!!
ReplyDeleteBy the way - check your email! You are one of the winners of the blog hop for Valentines, so I need you to email me your address! :-)
I know, I can't make up my mind, I want a little of everything! And - WooHoo! Thanks for the heads up! (It originally went to Spam :p)
DeleteThese sound pretty amazing! Would love to be able to sample all those different varieties...hope they all do well! Saying "hello!" from the Boost-My-Blog Party. :)
ReplyDeleteWow! That is a huge amount of trees! Is your plan to keep a PYO orchard? We have several in Maine that we go to, and I would love to have a few trees for our personal use, but it seems that the deer always get any of the apple trees near our house!
ReplyDeleteWe hope to have a PYO, with the varieties we've selected we'll have apples ripening from July through November. There is a lot of competition in our area though for PYO, but surprisingly our local Farmers Market only has one apple guy. So we're defiantly going to do that too!
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