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Long-storing apples
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| Janet Galpin 2005-09-28, 3:21 pm |
| I bagged up some apples tonight to put in a dead freezer, Bob Flowerdew
style. When I opened the freezer, I found a polybag with a festering
mush of two apples totally forgotten from last year and alongside the
mush one perfectly preserved apple labelled Idared.
I had read that Idared is about the longest storing apple and planted a
tree because of that. This confirms it rather splendidly. To keep to the
following Sept, nearly October, and in a polybag with two rotten apples
seems to me to be pretty amazing.
Janet G
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| Malcolm Stewart 2005-09-28, 8:21 pm |
| "Janet Galpin" <decoy.farm@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3130303036353939433AE3B947@zetnet.co.uk...
> alongside the
> mush one perfectly preserved apple labelled Idared.
It may keep well, but is it worth eating? My preference is for a Cox or a
Granny Smith.
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M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK
http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm
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| JP in Lon 2005-09-29, 5:21 am |
| "Malcolm Stewart" <malcolm_stewart@megalith.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
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> "Janet Galpin" <decoy.farm@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> It may keep well, but is it worth eating?
My thoughts exactly.
>My preference is for a Cox or a Granny Smith.
Or, perhaps a preserve. (since it's far easier to make a preserve than
uproot a tree...) :@)
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J.P. in London.
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| Janet Galpin 2005-09-29, 3:21 pm |
| The message <dhf7qt$hm2$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>
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> "Janet Galpin" <decoy.farm@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> It may keep well, but is it worth eating? My preference is for a Cox or a
> Granny Smith.
Idared is certainly not the most exciting apple for flavour but if
you're aiming for something approaching self-sufficiency, like the idea
of having easy access to organic apples or want to save on food miles,
then it's worth quite a bit to have your own apples between the months
of May and July when most other apples have either withered or turned
into a rotten mush. The only Coxes or Granny Smiths available during
those months will be imported ones.
Janet G
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