What’s Ripe for Picking?

Currently ripe for picking-

Honeycrisp- super crisp, juicy, sweet and tangy. The most popular apple at Burtt’s

Macoun- delicately sweet, clean and crisp. Good for baking and fresh eating.

Flemish Beauty Pear- large juicy and sweet. Picks green and ripens on the countertop

McIntosh- classic New England pie apple and good tart eater

Cortland- our favorite baking apple. Large and tart.

Cox’s Orange Pippin- popular in the UK. Champagne flavor. Only two trees in our orchard!

Pixie Crunch- candy sweet. Crisp. Nice snack size

Snowsweet- vanilla ice cream. Firm. Lasts a long time in storage

Jonamac- best apple sauce apple. Great snack apple for kids

Freedom- Eco friendly tree. Good baking apple

Liberty- savory tart flavor. Also eco-friendly grower

Gala- Super firm. Good storage apple.

Fuji- sweet and crisp. Most widely grown apple on the planet

Sweet Sixteen- sweet (no wonder) with a dense cream colored flesh. Folks who know these don’t pass them up.

Zabergau Reinette- nutty russet. Dry and chunky.

Pomme Gris- little gray apple. Brown sugar.

Ripening Soon-  

Empire- savory tart /sweet combo flavor.  Crisp eating apple

Ashmead’s Kernel- intense champagne, high sugar masked with high acid.

Jonagold- large firm apple with a delicious zingy sweet flavor. Good keeper.

Northern Spy- great baking apple and good keeper.

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