A Guide to Fruit and Vegetable Varieties, Availability, and Utility
D.
Coffin
APPROX
KEEPING
PICK
FRUIT
USE
TIME
ABILITY YOUR OWN
Sour Cherries*
cook
7/15
poor
Methley Plums*
eating
8/10
poor
Shiro Plums*
eating
8/20
poor
Stanley Plums*
eat/can/cook 8/20
poor
APPLES- Most varieties freeze well prepared as
apple
sauce or for pies.
Transparent*
cook
8/5
poor
Lodi
cook
8/5
poor
Red Astrachan*
eat/cook
8/15
poor
Duchess*
cook
8/12
poor
Melba
eat
8/15
fair
Puritan
eat/cook
8/24
fair
Rolfe
cook
9/8
fair
St. Lawrence
eat/cook
9/10
fair
Macintosh**
eat/cook
9/20 good
yes
Cortland
eat/cook
9/20 excellent
yes
Crabapple*
cook/jelly 9/20
excellent
Macoun
eat
9/25
excellent
Milding
eat/cook/cider
9/25
good
Pound Sweet*
eat/cook
9/25
fair
Wolfriver*
cook
9/25
poor
Fameuse (Snow)*
eat/cook
9/25
good
Empire
eat
9/25
good
Bellflower
eat/cook
10/2
good
Red Delicious
eat/decorate
10/3 excellent
Golden Delicious
eat/cook
10/3 excellent (in
plastic)
Winter Banana
eat/cook
10/10 excellent
Northern Spy
eat/cook
10/15 excellent
yes
PUMPKINS
Decoration/ Pie
September
yes
SQUASH
September
Butternut
as they ripen
Buttercup
as they ripen
*Limited Quantities
**Limited quantities of early hard green Macs available end of August.
Call for availability.