Ceci n’est pas une pomme (It’s actually a baozi -sweet white flour bun with golden custard filling - figured it was apples and honey season)

Chuck is back on the #apples thing!

These are not plums, they are apples! These are red-fleshed Robert’s Crab apples. They are crispy, tart & aromatic.

Pet peeve: apple growers who don't tell us what's ripe this week. The lazy "list of everything we grow" including apples that didn't even come in this year does not cut it. But shout out to two who care enough to tell us: adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/09/hoor...

Yes, but we are really getting ahead of ourselves with this one.

I am hanging on this 🧵—stay tuned! #apples

Harvested and dried our Ashmead’s Kernel apples. A ripe Ashmead’s is an in-your-face apple: high acid, high sugar. An apple that solo drives a red convertible with the top down in the carpool lane during rush hour.

Season's greetings! #apples adamapples.blogspot.com/2008/08/appl...

Fascinating apple that begat Cox's Orange Pippin

I picked up 16 new varieties at a local orchard yesterday! Absolutely enchanting time of year 🍎🍏💕

I am celebrating the start of the thickest, richest part of the apple harvest. adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/09/prim...

Not lopsided enough.

Some of the results of the last couple of days' apple picking efforts at work. Left: 'Ribston Pippin' and 'Lord Suffield', Right: 'James Grieve' and 'Withington Welter'. Also picked a whole tray of 'Keswick Codlin'. I absolutely love this time of year 😍

Apples, rainbows, and incoming squalls!

Celebrating the return of fall with “horse lunch” in which I get three apples at the produce store and walk around in the sun eating them

It's finally that time of year #apples adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/09/welc...

A good year for apples in the Kingdom of Kent, the Garden of England

Hubbardston Nonesuch, I presume! Look closely at the town seal of Hubbardston (Massachusetts) #apples

Made the papers 🍎🍎🍎🍏🍏🍏

Hey apple bsky, can any of you advise this person who'd like to know what apples to grow in "a temperate climate"? I think he lives in Poland. Link to his question in my blog comments: adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/08/brin...

Still working our way through a large volume of Tydeman's Early apples here, but the maincrop isn't far behind. Reckon Charles Ross may be ready in a week or so, and those pictured not too far afterwards. Will probably be pressing late September or v early October this year.

That's how it's done

I returned to Redfree last week for a deeper dive #apples adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/09/redf...

Apple 'Cox's Orange Pippin'. A classic, which in a good year is meant to taste absolutely delicious, and I reckon this has been a pretty good year. It's a mid-September ripener, so it might be another week or two before it's ready, but I'm looking forward to sampling these at their peak.

Prairie Spy apple

This is a very handsome and prolific Apple. Positively glowing. It has no label. And I have no idea what it is.

Just call me the apple bore, I guess.

Hutchins Farm is on a regular bike loop of mine so this year I have been watching the trees from blossom to fruit. Coming along nicely #apples adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/08/brin...

Those are my apples!!

The selection of #apples grown here sounds appropriately conservative.

I got to try this early UK apple for the first time last week. Vaguely reminiscent of McIntosh. #apples adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/08/worc...

Apple 'Tupp's Favourite'. My phone camera really doesn't do justice to how bright a red they are. Quite large, with a distinctly spicy flavour, ripe and ready now. I had the scion from @stewartwaine.bsky.social who tells me the original tree is a seedling, via the folks at Welsh Mountain Cider.

This 'Belle de Boskoop' apple seems to have been mildly affected by... something. I'm not actually sure what causes those sort of markings. Insects? Hail or frost damage? Anyway, I'm sure it will taste fine once it ripens, which ought to be towards the start October.

I would not be afraid to eat this. (In October, I mean.)

I write about apples on my blog, and the best parts are comments from readers. This one, a memory of an old orchard, really caught my eye and heart so I quote posted it. Thanks to readers who share! adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/08/comm...

Never tasted this one but the name reminds me how weird it is that people no longer like really good #apples if they are not super super sweet. Honeycrisp is pretty good, but the name says it all: like a kiddee breakfast cereal.

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esopus apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1913

I'm not sure what happened with this 'Beauty of Bath' apple, but it doesn't seem to be the finest, prize-winning example of its type... 🤔 Rather lovely though, in its own way 🙂

Today at work I also picked around 11.5 Kg of 'Irish Peach' #apples from a pair of trees in the Apprentice House orchard. Sweet, juicy, crunchy bite but with quite soft flesh. Very refreshing, but won't keep for very long, something they have in common with most other early apples.

Come hear me talk about @kwiaht.org's apple ID project at the San Juan County Fair on Saturday at 12:30pm (at the Ag Tent/Green Village).

Paused on a bike ride yesterday to pay tribute to the old Crocket orchard in Ipswich (MA), erased by time, weather, and bad luck #apples adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

winesap apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1895

In contrast to my previous mournful post about an abandoned orchard going to pot, these well tended (and organic!) trees are gangbusters so far. Plus what you can get at farmers market. #apples adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/08/well...

So sad to see this great old orchard go to pot adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/08/frui...

golden russet apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1906

Pink Pearl apples. Still on the tart side, but ready to pick. Their interior color is the best I’ve seen thanks to a cooler-than-typical summer so far.