Hocking Hills Orchard , home to some of the most unusual apples growing anywhere!
And with Halloween coming up here are some varieties that fit the season!
Blood Delicious – For any vampire trick or treaters. Germany, newer red flesh variety. This is one of my new favorite red fleshed varieties.
Bloody Butcher – Ireland. Large deep red flushed cooking apples 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 usually for making sweet cider, sometimes with 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.
Ghost Apple – White skinned variety. Pale white skin and sweet flesh with acidic notes. This apple can typically be harvested in early July.
Patte de Loup - France, 1670. Name means scratch of the wolf or close enough. Mentioned in literature since 1670. Named for the mark resembling a scar which can be found on most fruits. It cracks easily in the middle of the fruit development and this leaves a mark looking like a scratch. The yellowish flesh is very crunchy with an aromatic, balanced, not too acidic flesh. The Patte-de-loup blossoms late, the apples are harvested mid October.
Piel de Sapa – And in case you have any Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle trick or treaters. Name translates to “Skin of the toad”. Recommended cider variety of northern Spain. Rough red-brown russet over pale skin. bittersharp, aromatic, astringent fruit ripens late season. Classified as “semiacida” in traditional Spanish cider.
Pumpkin Sweet – Connecticut, 1834. Very large fruit. Skin light green, sometimes with orange stripes, shape round, ribbed. Flesh firm, cream-colored, water core. Flavor sweet, eating quality good.
And a few more that I do not have pics of yet:
Sari Kabak Alma which translates as Yellow Pumpkin Apple – Turkey, large yellow apple.
Yeşil Kabak Alma which translates as Green Pumpkin Apple – Turkey, large green apple.
Email me for info on scions for these and other of our 1,900 apple varieties at derekcs2005@aol.com
Derek Mills
Hocking Hills Orchard at Four Seasons Cabins in the beautiful Hocking Hills of SE Ohio.
