Ashmead's Kernel originated from a seed planted around 1700 by a Dr Thomas Ashmead in Gloucester. The Ashmead's Kernel apple is medium size, golden-brown skin with a distinct crisp, nutty snap. The fruit explodes with a champagne-sherbet juice infused with a sugary and sharp character. The Ashmead's Kernel apple is one of our favorite apples.
The fruit is an attractive crimson and orange flushed over a yellow background. The flesh is crisp, juicy, and sweet-tart, very similar to Honeycrisp. It is slow to brown when cut, and it makes a great salad apple.
A beautiful russet apple with breaking, sugary flesh and a distinct nutty flavor that almost tastes like vanilla ice cream. This apple is very pear like in its consistency. Hudson's Golden Gem apple tree was discovered among a dense group of bushes and trees in Oregon and introduced in 1931.
Jonagold was developed in the 1940s and as its name suggests, is a cross between Jonathan and Golden Delicious. It's a crisp apple, with white to slightly creamy flesh. The flavor is sweet but with a lot of balancing acidity - a very pleasant apple for fresh eating.
Orleans Reinette is an apple originally from France 1776. Fruit is medium to small, wide and squat. Skin is yellow-green with light netlike russeting, reddish on the sun side. Flesh is creamy white, firm and fine-textured and very juicy with a taste first of sweet oranges followed by a nutty flavor. Flavor is complex.
One of our favorite early season apples, great texture, flavor and plenty of sweetness. If you are looking for a sweeter apple, this is your best bet this week.
Sunburst is an attractive yellow-skinned apple with a pink hue which, in well coloured fruit, gives it an orange appearance. The pale white-yellow flesh is also tinged with pink to a greater of lesser degree. The light, crisp flesh is juicy and has a very good level of sweetness, while the flavour is interesting and pronounced, said to variously resemble…
