From family-run farms to orchards growing the juiciest heirloom apples, these are the best places to go apple picking in ...

Enterprise apple trees ripen in October, and they're resistant to blight, rust, and scab, as well as moderately resistant to mildew. Traunfeld notes they have medium to large, red, crisp fruit.

The team newly sequenced and assembled the genomes of 30 members of the genus, including the domesticated golden delicious apple variety. Of the 30 species, 20 are diploid, meaning that they have two ...

The fact that apples grown from seedling trees are extremely tart and basically inedible — as opposed to cloned or grafted trees — did not hinder the efforts of Johnny Appleseed, the popular ...

We are living in a golden age of apples, a time of delicious, diverse, mouth-watering abundance that we could barely have imagined at the turn of the millennium.

The main barn silo peaks out behind a row of Golden Delicious apple trees at County Line Orchard. ... HOBART — It’s the beginning of September and apples are ripe for the picking at County ...

As the fall season continues, Red Delicious, Honey Crisp and more will start to ripen. Deal's Orchard also sells award-winning sweet cider to enjoy after spending a day picking apples. Where ...

Apple breeding is a lengthy process, taking up to thirty years for a new apple variety to hit the market after cross-pollination. The tree that Bedford saved in 1982 was one of four clones of MN ...