TODAY IN THE ORCHARD

I spent the morning describing and photographing apples from our trial orchard at Finley Lane. In particular I was looking at several of the seedling apples we’ve been given by fruit explorers in recent years, including Barbed Wire from Jason MacArthur in Vermont, Howe’s from Steve Gougeon in Massachusetts, and Deevee and Blue Wolf from Angus Dieghan in Maine. All have potential as cider apples. Blue Wolf looks like a cross between Blue Pearmain and Wolf River. (Maybe it is.)