Today's apples don't grow on towering trees, could have been picked in 2023 ... The Granny Smith from Australia and the Gala from New Zealand became available in the 1970s. The Fuji, from Japan ...
They don’t: if you plant a Gala seed, you won’t grow a tree that produces Gala apples. (Brown’s favorite apple: “SnapDragon, without a doubt,” she says. Her team cultivated SnapDragons ...
It was not an unreasonable question—I have a garden, it contains six apple trees, and apple season was approaching. But it filled me with shame. I demurred. “No, not yet,” I said.
One farm in western New York is growing about 7,000 types in search of the next bestseller, according to Christopher Gerlach of the U.S. Apple Association. In 2018, Gala apples became the most ...