This are some samples of the apple seeds I’ve picked up and classified this year. I’m thinking about germinating and planting some of the varieties. Seeds for the new year.
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Cider Apples
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Last weekend has been fun. After several weeks fermenting my first apple juice, which I got from a friendly Basque cider house, I racked it to carboys and left it settle.
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My wife is from The Razón Valley, the birthplace of the famous Butter of Soria. The Valley is a beautiful place, with 7 small villages where only about 400 people live during all the year.
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This morning I went to the forest to localize some crab apple trees in The Butter Valley of Soria and pick some of the fruits.
THE GRANDMA OF APPLES
Due to its weak competitiveness and high light requirement, the European crab apple tree exists mostly at the wet edge of forests, in farmland hedges or on marginal sites.
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