Apple varieties growing here that fit a Halloween theme!
Bloody Butcher - Ireland. Early ripening, 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, mid season, sweet cider, 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.
Pumpkin - Connecticut, 1834. Very large fruit. Skin light green, sometimes with orange stripes, shape round, ribbed. Flesh firm, cream-colored, water core with a sweet flavor.
Derek Mills
Hocking Hills Orchard at Four Seasons Cabins in SE Ohio
