From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/14/2021 5:26 AM, songbird wrote:   
   > Bob F wrote:   
   > ...   
   >> The "winter banana" is a very late apple, and stores well, thus the name.   
   >   
   >    i haven't looked it up on flowering time but i did   
   > notice the Transparent Yellows were noted as flowering   
   > early and that they needed some thinning to get a decent   
   > crop.   
   >   
   >    around here flowering early would be a damage from frost   
   > risk i'd like to avoid.   
   >   
   >    this is an apple growing region but the number of apple   
   > orchards isn't that big any more.  it takes a lot of manual   
   > labor to properly  take care of an apple orchard.   
   >   
      
   There are lots of never picked apple trees near me in Seattle. It is   
   easy to get lots of apples for cider even if you have no trees.   
      
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