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From: klier@cobra.uni.edu
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Re: Apple tree care
Message-ID: <1993Sep22.093117.16961@cobra.uni.edu>
Date: 22 Sep 93 09:31:17 -0500
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In article <27pdir$7d8@transfer.stratus.com>, ptanner@crow.eng.stratus.com (Philip Tanner) writes:
> 	I planted a golden delicious apple tree in our yard about
> 5 years ago, and the tree has matured nicely. Both this year and last
> I got blossoms in the spring and fruit later in the summer. The only
> problem is the fruit isn't good enough to eat.
> 	What I've found is pieces which look like it's rotted, or been
> attacked by insects. Also, the fruit looks deformed with bumps and
> dimples.
> 	What should I be doing to correct this for next years fruit?

You've got a choice to make here.  You can spend next spring and summer
spraying all sorts of nasties on your crop to make it look like the
perfect apples in the grocery stores, or you can learn to sort the
apples, do some trimming, and eat 'em anyhow.   

Or you can replace the current tree with a disease resistant cultivar,
like MacFree...  

Having grown up with backyard apple trees that produced the world's
worst-looking, best-tasting apples with no sprays, I vote for the
paring knife...

Kay Klier  Biology Dept  UNI


