Partridge Point Orchard | Apple Varieties

Apple Varieties

Golden Delicious:
A duel purpose apple. Excellent for eating fresh and excellent for cooking. It is sweet and aromatic. It retains it white flesh after cutting. Makes a clear applesauce which does not require much sugar. Ready mid-September. An excellent keeper in a second refrigerator over the winter.

Fuji:
A very sweet, crisp, juicy apple. Known around the world. Excellent for eating fresh and salads. Stores like a dream all winter in the refrigerator. In fact, we like it even better when it has been in storage for a couple of months. It is our best storing apple, as it stays super crisp all winter. Ready mid-late September

Empire:
A cross between a McIntosh and Red Delicious. It is almost a burgundy color when ripe. Juicy, slightly tart and so crisp. A beautiful baking apple. My very favorite pie apple. Makes a pink applesauce, if you do not peel. Ready mid-September. Keeps well in the refrigerator over the winter.

Jonathan:
Slightly tart with lots of snap. Bakes a delicious pie. Makes a pink applesauce if not peeled. Usually the apple used in caramel apples. Keeps well. Usually ready by early September.

Red Delicious:
A crisp, sweet apple. Good for eating fresh in lunch boxes or for snacks. Also very good in salads. Keeps very well.

Honey Crisp:
This exceptional new variety was developed from a Macoun x Honeygold cross at the University of Minnesota. The fruit is orange-red in color and this crisp, juicy, sweet apple has a rich flavor that has made it consistently #1 in taste panels. It is early ripening and stores very well.

Golden Supreme:
This apple is a good selection as an early golden delicious. The color is greenish-yellow to a blush golden with firm cream-colored flesh that provides a sweet, juicy flavor. Excellent as a cooking apple and eating apple. Stores well under refrigeration. Ready to harvest by the first part of September.

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Winter Storage

You can store your fall apples for use during the winter. Place the apples in a plastic bag with NO holes, tie with a bread wrapper tie, and place in a refrigerator. There will be moisture around the apples in the bag and you want the high humidity, so that the apples will not shrivel. Many of our customers use a box lid or old cookie sheet to hold the bag of apples. That way, the apples will not be bruised as the box lid or cookie sheet is pulled in and out of the refrigerator to remove apples for use. Check your bag occasionally and remove any apples not storing well and use immediately.

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