And with Halloween almost on us here are some spectacularly named apple varieties growing at our Hocking Hills Orchard!
Bloody Butcher - Ireland. Large red flushed yellow apples mainly used for cooking with firm juicy white flesh with a tart flavor. also popular with small scale cider makers for cider making with bittersweet juice.
Bloody Ploughman - Scotland, 1883. Large sized fruit used quite a bit for cider. Produces sweet cider and has pink stained flesh. Name taken from a ploughman who was caught stealing apples and shot by the gamekeeper. His wife got the apples he had stolen and threw them on a rubbish heap and a seedling appeared - this one.
Blood Delicious - Germany. New developed red fleshed variety.
Email me at derekcs2005@aol.com for info on swapping and/or buying scions.
Derek A Mills
Hocking Hills Orchard at the Four Seasons Cabins located in the beautiful Hocking Hills of SE Ohio. Home to 1,600 varieties of apples and hundreds of other fruit varieties.
