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Pepin Heights apples include many regional favorites...with flavors ranging from super-sweet to a bit more pucker inducing. In addition to the names you see below, we are always growing and testing new varieties to try and discover "the next Big Thing".
State Fair   Season: Mid August Description: Medium Size, white flesh, round, smooth, bright red, glossy finish, crisp, juicy. Uses Fresh eating cooking   Ginger Gold   Season: Late August Description: Sweet but mildly tart, fine textured, crisp cream colored flesh. This is a great early variety eating apple. Uses Fresh eating Salads   Paulared   Season: Late August Description: Medium size, roundish, red color, white flesh. Slightly tart and tangy. Uses Fresh eating Pies Sauce   Whitney Crab   Season: Late August Description: Red stripes over yellow skin. Uses Fresh eating Sauces Excellent for pickling   Chestnut Crab   Season: Early September Description: Fruit is large for a crab apple, skin is light red over yellow, highly russeted. Flesh is yellow, fine grained and juicy. Uses Fresh eating Sauces Excellent for pickling   Wealthy   Season: Early September Description: Medium size, striped red, somewhat tart flavor. Uses Fresh eating Pies Sauce   McIntosh   Season: Mid September Description: Nearly solid bright red. Rich flavor, but soft when cooked. Great for Applesauce. Uses Fresh eating Pies Sauce   HoneyCrisp   Season: Mid September Description: Red with mottled yellow background Extremely crisp and juicy. Balanced aromatic flavor. Keeps for up to 6 months. Uses Fresh eating Baking Sauce   Cortland   Season: Late September Description: Deep red skin with some stripes. Very white flesh. Sweet and tart, crisp & highly aromatic. This is a great baking apple. Uses Fresh eating Pies Sauces Baking   Sweet Sixteen   Season: Late September Description: Rose red with stripes. High sugar, fine texture. Uses Fresh eating Sauce   Fireside/Connell Red   Season: Mid October Description: Large, striped red or solid red (Connell Red is redder form of ‘Fireside’). Sweet flavor. Uses Fresh eating   Haralson   Season: Early October Description: Red skin with pronounced lenticils. Very firm and tart. This is a great pie apple. Uses Fresh eating Pies Sauces   Regent   Season: Mid October Description: Red striped, balanced flavor on the sweet side. Uses Fresh eating Sauces Apple Varieties PDF If you don't have the Adobe Acrobat Reader(r) application, you can download it here.

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