TODAY IN THE ORCHARD
Red June apples
Apple Identification season is upon us. Let the season begin! Today Alyssa joined me to look at apples from Colorado and New Hampshire. The Colorado apple appears to be Red June and the NH apple appears to be Early Harvest. In the coming weeks there will be many more submissions to look at and attempt to ID. We also collected leaves for DNA profiling. This batch are all historic cider cultivars sent to me from England over the past ten years. They all went through the APHIS program (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) in Beltsville MD and have now been released to us to grow out and disseminate. Later we picked blackberries. It’s a fabulous blackberry year. It’s also shaping up to be a fabulous elderberry year. All the elderberry bushes on the farm are absolutely loaded. Peaches are continuing to drop though so far we’re just collecting them off the ground and leaving those on the trees to ripen.