Apples
State
Fair-August 12
Juicy, moderately tart fruit. Good for eating and cooking.
Beacon-August 17
Bright red apple with soft
juicy flesh
Zestar!-August 25
Large, crunchy, juicy red fruit with sprightly sweet-tart flavor
and a
hint of brown sugar. Excellent for both eating and cooking.
Sweet Sixteen-September
2
Crisp and juicy with an exoctic yellow
flesh.
Very sweet unusual sugar cane or spicy cherry candy flavor.
Cortland-September
2
Sweet with a hint of tartness, juicy
crsip white flesh.
Excellent for eating and salads as stay white when cut open.
Honeycrisp-September
3
Best Eating Apple Ever!
Outstanding
crispness and juiciness.
Minnesota State Apple
Haralson, Honeygold, Fireside
Connell Red
September 9-15
Haralson: firm texture with complex tart flavor.
Especially
good pie apple.
Honeygold: Sweet, crisp and juicy. Excellent for fresh eating.
Fireside/Connell
Red: Large fruit with sweet flavor.
Good for fresh eating,
salad and baked apples.
Plums-mid August
