I started off the weekend thinking that I’d review two apples for this episode of American Apple. There were only two new varieties at the orchard on Friday when I stopped in. But I swung by again Saturday afternoon and there were four more that I hadn’t yet tried! Ack! I selected two of the four. Here are the varieties I ended up working with this weekend:
Welcome back to American Apple! What a contest we have this week! My trip to the orchard yesterday netted us two new antique apple varieties to try: Wolf River and Carnation, also known as Carpentin. The immediately noticeable thing about the two of them as they sat side-by-side on the scale was the difference in their sizes. Wolf River apples are gargantuan Goliaths. Really, really huge! And Carnations are diminutive little Davids. I felt like I was working with walnuts as I prepared them for pie pan. So the question this week is, will David slay Goliath? Or will Goliath’s flavor match its size?
“Don’t cut the lawn, don’t cut the lawn!
You will cut my little nestlings who have just been born.”
~The lark, to Mr. Pomeroy and Snapping Jack, the lawn mower,
in Margaret Mahey’s wonderful story, Don’t Cut the Lawn
Ah, lawn care. I’ve never paid too much attention to it. But after reading Richard Bisgrove’s little book, Garden Rescue, I just might pay a bit more. Of course, Bisgrove is a British author and garden expert writing about British lawns and gardens, and so his remedies for improving the quality of your lawn may not work with the grasses here in North America. (Lawn care experts, please comment!) However, in his experience, much can be done just by adjusting the height of the mower.
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