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2010 APPLE SEASON IS OVER!
WE ARE NOW MAKING WINE!!
"old FALL crop up-date sheet"
SEASON IS OVER!
ORCHARD IS FOR SALE!
ZESTAR: THESE ARE NOW READY...SEE THE LISTING ABOVE. This is an early version of the Honeycrisp. I think it is sweeter and it does not have the tart taste of the Honeycrisp.
HONEYCRISP: ARE READY!
THEY CONTINUE TO LOOK GREAT.
CORTLAND APPLES: ready to go!
Greenings & Prairie Spy SOLD OUT FOR THE SEASON!are available.
McIntosh ready to go!
ZESTAR: SOLD OUT FOR THE SEASON!
$2 / LB. THESE ARE VERY SIMILAR TO THE HONEYCRISP, PERHAPS A LTTLE SWEETER. We will have these available for Labor Day Weekend. We will only have pre-picked apples, we are color and size picking these right now. About 10 - 20% are ripe on each tree, this prevents us from opening them up to pick your own.
STATE FAIR: SOLD OUT FOR THE SEASON! GREAT Summer Apple. Great eating apple, it makes a great sauce and cider. The pies are great too, but they will be very juicy! We will have pick-your-own open on this apple this weekend, after this week end we will strip the trees and use this apple for; fresh apple sales, cider and for making apple syrup.
PRISTINE: SOLD OUT FOR THE SEASON! This very new apple from the U of Purdue, it is a great early yellow eating apple. We have high hopes for it as an early cider or wine apple. We planted these 3 years ago, we picked 4-5 bushels of them this year. Most went to family members, the rest (except for 3 trees I spotted while mowing today) sold out last weekend. Ask about this apple mid-August next year, production will be higher!
Red Free & William's Pride: SOLD OUT FOR THE SEASON!
Honeycrisp will be ready on one rootstock plantation with very good sun exposure right after Labor Day. They will continue to ripen peaking around Sept. 20 - 28.
Up-dates on the rest of the apples will be available in 2 weeks.
APPLE CROP:
- BAD NEWS IS THE WEATHER. APPLES ACROSS THE REGION WILL BE IN SHORT SUPPLY!
- Along the I-94 Corridor a freeze Mother's Day weekend killed the small apples that formed on the trees due
to the early spring. Apples south of this were okay, we have a leased orchard down there.
- Apples north of highway 8 were protected by a layer of snow and they had not set fruit. But, losses were still
30 to 70%. However, there are apples on the trees.
- The hot and wet summer was also not good for growing apples.
On another note, we will soon start bottling a few new wines later this week, or early next week.
ALSO, we are partnered with Northern Vineyards to produce a Harlson / Marshall Fosh (apple/grape) "BLUSH" WINE!
WE WILL KEEP YOU UP-DATED!
OUR 2009 HONEYCRISP WINES WILL BE GETTING FINISHED OFF AND BOTTLE BY MID-AUGUST!
Our Family Orchard (6000+ trees) is located in temperature zone 3 (cold). We grow primarily University of Minnesota "northern" apple varieties. Honeycrisp, Haralson, Honey Gold, Zestar, Sweet 16, and the new Snow Sweet Apples have been our focus, but we also have many other varieties such as Greenings, McIntosh, Cortland, Prestine and many sub-varieties of these apples.
BUT, SEVERAL YEARS AGO WE LEARNED THAT MANY ROOTSTOCKS SOLD AND MARKETED AS WEATHER HARDY ARE NOT!!
We had a cold long winter without any meaningful snow cover. Septic systems froze up, water lines froze and so did SOME of our TREES. About 900 mature (planted in 1984 - 1985) Trees died.
Interestingly we had rows in which every other tree was "DEAD" and the alternating tree had a bumper crop???
The difference was the rootstock.
We now partner with another Orchard in Northern Michigan and have our own trees grown at a nursery in Washington.
We have the nursery put our bud wood on very weather hardy rootstocks. The trees (18,000) are dug up in March (thaws earlier there) and our partner hauls them home. We then plant them when our grown thaws out.
AVAILABILITY OF ALL PRODUCTS IS VERY POOR IN 2010.
WE ONLY HAVE EXTREMELY LIMITED AVAILABILITY TO HONEYCRISP TREES, SORRY!
We will have some extra trees, but not a lot of them.
If you would like to buy some let us know ASAP!
CALL: 715-491-6978 (ORCHARD MOBILE), we are extremely busy in the spring (wine, apples, berries, vegetables, livestock) we tend not to have spare time to check e-mails,
so CALL...don't write!
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TREES AVAILABLE - everything is sold out! 7/16 - 1/2" diameter
EVERYTHING EXCEPT A FEW HONEYCRISP TREES IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Honeycrisp Apples: (Minnesota's State Fruit) ripens over a long period of time, early to late September. Crunchy, juicy, sweet / tart. In addition to being an "outstanding" eating apple, We use these for wine, cider, pies, caramel apples & baking. Honeycrisp cider mixes well with Southern Comfort! They store very well!
Haralson:(SOLD OUT) Ripens late Sept. Tart, juicy, great flavor. This our Bakery's #1 choice for making pies! Good for eating, cider, caramel apples. Excellent with Spiced Rum!
Honey Gold: (SOLD OUT) Ripens late in Sept. or early Oct. When allowed to properly ripen it has a sweet "pear like" flavor. Thin skin & soft flesh. Excellent eating apple, makes a tasty pie and cider. Really good with a "smooth" vodka.
Zestar: Ripens a week or 2 before Honeycrisp. We started planting these 12 years ago when they were called Zestas. Very Zesty flavor, similar to honeycrisp.
Sweet 16: (SOLD OUT) Ripens mid - late Sept. Unique licorice flavor if allowed to properly ripen. Excellent eating apple. It is less popular now due to the Honeycrisp.
McIntosh & Cortland: (SOLD OUT) Ripen mid Sept., the Cortland has a firmer skin than the McIntosh. Both are good for eating and excellent for pies and cider.
Snow Sweet: (SOLD OUT) New U of Mn. apple. We just planted these last year. Surprisingly we had to take apples off of the young trees. Supposedly they ripen late in Sept. or early Oct. Similar to Connell Red's or Fireside apples but crisper.
Also Available: Montmorency (pie) Cherry Trees - Manchurian (flowering crab) Trees - Red Sensation & Starking Delicious Pear Trees - Blue Ray & Chandler (SOLD OUT) Blueberry Plants |
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Our WINERY & GRILLE: 120 N. Washington St. "downtown" St. Croix Falls, WI 54024
St. Croix Falls is located about 54 miles from downtown Mpls., just across the river from MN on Highway 8
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