The Spartans are coming! (Apple lovers unite)

[luckyfox]

Great to hear that due to the good weather our local farms may have the gorgeous spartan variety of apples in sooner than expected. It's a personal fav next to the faithful braeburns. We're really lucky to have a few organic farms locally who are very reasonably priced.

We're keen foragers in our house and a big fans of local produce.

What's your favourite apple?

 

[Chromatic]

My favourite apple is Discovery.

 

[luckyfox]

My favourite apple is Discovery.

Nice choice, rare up here tho

 

[Mo1959]

My favourite apple is Discovery.

My dad enjoys apple growing. I had one of his Discovery the other day. Very nice. I got him a variety called Katy a couple of years ago and it has fruited well again this year. He messes around with grafting and has some trees that actually have three or four varieties on them.

 

[cosmicbike]

Not a huge Apple fan, though the kids eat Royal Gala and my good lady Braeburns. We have an apple tree in the garden, they're strictly cookers but very nice in a pie or crumble. I'm a pear man myself, and at the moment I'm on Williams, very nice when ripe but do bruise very easily.

 

[Cycleops]

Spartans are very nice. Unfortunately we get a variety of Golden Delicious from South Africa, not bad.

 

[Chromatic]

Nice choice, rare up here tho

That'll learn ya for living up there!

My dad enjoys apple growing. I had one of his Discovery the other day. Very nice. I got him a variety called Katy a couple of years ago and it has fruited well again this year. He messes around with grafting and has some trees that actually have three or four varieties on them.

There was an article in a newspaper I was reading at my parents this morning about a bloke who had an apple tree with about 75 billion different varieties (something like that, it may have been slightly fewer) growing on it. We've got a Discovery tree in our garden and that can't even produce any apples at all.

 

[Chromatic]

Worcester Pearmains are nice too, as are Russets as @User259 said.

 

[welsh dragon]

We have braeburn (not sure how it's spelt) apple trees. Nice small apples.

 

[luckyfox]

I love the idea of a multi tree!

We have braeburn (not sure how it's spelt) apple trees. Nice small apples.

They are an addiction in our house, perfect to go under the Sunday pork too!

 

[KEEF]

Russets

 

[Supersuperleeds]

We have red ones from Sainsbury's, sometimes for a change we have green ones. There ends my deep knowledge of apples.

 

[ufkacbln]

.. and there was me thinking that Apple had called the New Iphone the "Spartan"

 

[Keith Oates]

Nobody has mentioned "Granny Smith's" apples which used to be popular in the orchards in the village I lived when in Cornwall !!!!!!!!!!

 

[Fnaar]

Miss Goodbody up the road has been around this morning, admiring my spartan low-hanging fruit