Apple picking

jagruti patel

jagruti patel

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It's fall here is Canada and apple picking season! I hope to go tomorrow morning and then spend the rest of the day DSD'ing!

Any one like apple picking?
What is your favourite apple?

I love apple picking, I always pick too many! Then have to deal with too many apples.

My favourites are mutsu and jonagold.
 
I LOVE apple picking. We live in the south and have to drive 2 1/2 hours to do it. But it's my favorite fall thing to do.

Our orchard has RED Jonagolds. Those and Mutsu are my faves. :)
 
I come from the Big Apple (NY) and my hometown is apple central. We even have a huge Apple Fest every year - all of the side streets of our town shut down and there's music and vendors and LOTS of city folk who've never seen a cow :D

Apple picking just isn't the same in NC where I am now. We do a lot more berry picking.

My favorite apple is probably Gala, but I've heard good things about Honeycrisp as well.
 
Apples are also a big thing here in Washington! My favorite is the honeycrisp. There are a lot of local farms that have picking available & almost always we can find fresh local apples in our markets. SO yummy! Especially with some nutella! ;) ;)
 
My favorite apple is the Macoun, which I've only ever found in New Hampshire.

I've never been apple picking, though I did chaperone my daughter's 1st grade apple picking field trip. Adults weren't allowed to pick.
 
I love love love apples!
I grew up between apples trees, my dad was/is an apple grower he is with pension now but still growing strong. My grandpa was an apple grower and so was my uncle.

So I did a lot of apple picking in the passed, we had 12 hectare of apple trees.

My favorite is one with a back story. I never knew before few year ago. A sister of my dad is living in Canada and when my dad visited her in the passed (I think I still was a baby) he took a apple branch back to the Netherlands where he grew a few full tree from.
So when I when I grew up those became my favorite never realizing they were from Canada and also not realizing we were the only dutch growers with the Red Delicious.
But I love most apples

No wi learned my kids to love apples as well, so every year several different apple baking recipes are a tradition.
 
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I love apple picking but we don't go every year. It's hard to say which favorite I love picking because I don't remember. Also you don't really get to try them on site unless you're sneaky lol

But at the store my favorite ones are Gala.
 
In our old house we inherited a couple of apple trees, so never knew the variety, but one tree we had I am so sad we had to leave behind.

When my son was born (he's 30 now) a friend gave an apple tree for his Christening. The variety was called Discovery. It had beautiful fruit, crisp yet sweet with a blush flesh. So that would be my favourite variety but I've never seen it in the store to buy.

I've never been apple picking at a farm. It's not such a huge thing I don't think near where I live. I did search and most of the apple picking farms are over a hundred miles away, although I've found one a little closer to home, but it's still an hour away. It sounds like a good place to visit though.

And @wendyp that is such a fabulous story your family has with the apple history.
 
I have never been apple picking, but it's now on my list. Apparently, the 9th best apple orchard is the US is about an hour away (according to whoever just made up a list and posted it on the internet LOL).
Pink Lady apples are my favorite, but I'm not sure where they are grown.
 
I've never been apple picking either and like Karli said, here in NC, it's more berry picking for sure. I think this is something I'd love to do someday because I DO love apples. Cosmic Crisp and Pink Ladies are my faves! Remember when red delicious, golden delicious, granny smith and gala were the only varieties? LOOOVE trying new apples!
 
My favorite are Pink Ladies. Our Aldi had big bags of them for super cheap for a while so my husband just kept bringing them home.

Apples don't grow this far south so I've never had a chance to go apple picking but I do love to hit up the strawberry u-pick in January before it gets too hot.

You're all making me want to make apple butter. As soon as we get a cold front (so I'm not sweltering in my house), I may try to do a jam and apple butter double canning day.
 
Oh man, I used to love going apple picking when my son was little - I wish we did it every year/tradition... he is now 18, not into doing these thing - well, that isn't true, I bet if I asked him, he would be all over it - he loves his traditions, haha.

I love a more crisp tart than sweet apple... so every year I go through a bunch of apples until I find the one that I like and then the next year year, I forgot what that one was, haha. I think it's gala? Or macintosh? I don't know... not envy - I just got those from Aldi and I didn't like them. I'll have to cook them up or something to use them up.
 
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