apples

2025 Winter pruning workshops: Apples and cold climate grapes

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu Are you looking to have more in-person, hands-on experience learning how to prune either cold climate grapes or apples? This year, UMN Extension is offering a selection of winter pruning workshops, instructed by Madeline Wimmer, UMN...

February UMN winter pruning webinars: Apples and cold climate grapes

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu Dormant pruning is the first step to influencing canopy structure and fruit quality. Learning how to prune takes practice and consideration to factors like plant growth habit, plant age and health, and canopy density. Each individual fruit...

Harvesting and using fallen apples and other produce - can it be done safely?

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu Can you safely use apples and other crops that might fall to the ground before or during harvest? Is it safe to just wash off and then sell these crops? While it might be tempting to want to use the products so that they do not go to waste...

When to pick your apples

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu Minnesota apples are tempting us to harvest them. Have you heard the old wise tale that you should wait until after a frost to harvest your apples? I am here to bust that myth. If we followed that rule, many of our apples would be...

Timely Tip

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu Timely tip: If the early snow left you with plants standing in your gardening, it’s a good thing! These plants will provide seeds for overwintering birds and stems for stem nesting bees, and improve your winter view thanks to the plants’...

Snow and Cold Weather Complicate Fall Mulching for Strawberries

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu Photo: Three inches of snow covers the ground west of the Twin Cities, October 20, 2020. Annie Klodd Between cold temperatures and snowfall this week, it can be confusing to decide when to lay down mulch for strawberries. Straw...

Will apples survive a freeze?

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu Haralson apples ripen late in the season. It's mid October and gardeners are covering plants and pots with sheets at night to protect them when frost is predicted. Plants can be “nipped” by frost when fat in cells on the outside edges...

How can I identify the apples in my backyard?

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu Bulmers Norman, a European apple variety This time of year, UMN Extension receives a steady stream of questions about how to identify unknown apple trees. In most of these instances, the person calling has recently purchased or...

100 years of University of Minnesota apple breeding

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu Minnehaha apple with cross-section from the National Fruit Collection (1951-024) One hundred years ago, in 1920, the University of Minnesota introduced its first apple named Minnehaha. In 1921 came Wedge and Folwell. And in 1922, the...