I bagged up some apples tonight to put in a dead freezer, Bob Flowerdew
style. When I opened the freezer, I found a polybag with a festering
mush of two apples totally forgotten from last year and alongside the
mush one perfectly preserved apple labelled Idared.

I had read that Idared is about the longest storing apple and planted a
tree because of that. This confirms it rather splendidly. To keep to the
following Sept, nearly October, and in a polybag with two rotten apples
seems to me to be pretty amazing.

Janet G

"Janet Galpin" wrote in message
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alongside the
mush one perfectly preserved apple labelled Idared.

It may keep well, but is it worth eating? My preference is for a Cox or a
Granny Smith.

--
M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK
http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm

"Malcolm Stewart" wrote in
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"Janet Galpin" wrote in message
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alongside the
mush one perfectly preserved apple labelled Idared.

It may keep well, but is it worth eating?

My thoughts exactly.

My preference is for a Cox or a Granny Smith.

Or, perhaps a preserve. (since it's far easier to make a preserve than
uproot a tree...) :@)

--
J.P. in London.

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"Janet Galpin" wrote in message
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alongside the
mush one perfectly preserved apple labelled Idared.

It may keep well, but is it worth eating? My preference is for a Cox or a
Granny Smith.

Idared is certainly not the most exciting apple for flavour but if
you're aiming for something approaching self-sufficiency, like the idea
of having easy access to organic apples or want to save on food miles,
then it's worth quite a bit to have your own apples between the months
of May and July when most other apples have either withered or turned
into a rotten mush. The only Coxes or Granny Smiths available during
those months will be imported ones.
Janet G