Early Harvest

The Apple, Early Harvest, Malus x domestica, produces a golden apple that is often used for cooking. The fine white flesh is juicy and pleasantly subacid when fully ripe. It ripens irregularly over about a month, and if you pick it when not absolutely fully mature it is a good cooking apple, and when fully tree ripened is a very good dessert apple. The tree is vigorous, productive, and relatively disease resistant. The core is small. Sometimes the skin will have an orange blush and whitish specks that turn brown when the fruit ripens. It is an upright, slow growing tree that bears early and heavily, and the wood is reddish brown with small white specks. There are varieties of apples suitable for almost all of the climate zones in the United States. They prefer cold winters, moderate summer and high humidity. Apples are deciduous and must be pollinated in order to produce fruit. Apple trees should be pruned in summer and winter. Fruit trees need a minimum of 6 8 hours of sunlight daily, and they need regular watering.