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We’re crazy about apples at Prairie Gardens and we love helping families get their own orchards underway! We’ve created an orchard package for anyone who’s as crazy about apples as we are. All of the varieties in the package are tried-and-true in Alberta, which means that they’re cold-hardy, productive, and easy to grow!

Each The Whole Dang Orchard Package includes 8 x #5 Cold-Hardy Apples, from the following categories:

  • 1 Keeper
  • 1 Cider
  • 1 Baking
  • 2 Fresh Eating
  • 1 Multi-Purpose
  • 1 Red-Fleshed
  • 1 Dwarf

This Orchard Package also includes a farm tour, and a 1-on-1 knowledge-sharing experience with an orchardist.

Many of our apples are multi-purpose, which means that even if it’s just listed in one category, it may be suited for others as well. For example, we’ve listed Honeycrisp in our Keeper category, because it lasts tremendously well – up to 6 months! However, Honeycrisp is also suited for fresh-eating, baking, juicing, and making cider.

Our Orchard Packages are flexible – we’re happy to work with you to plan the best possible apple orchard for your home. Let us know if you’d like us to customize a package for you! Just call 780-921-2272 or send an email to info@prairiegardens.org!

The Whole Dang Applecart! Orchard Package

$645.00

Honeycrisp: Large, mottled red-over-yellow apple. Notably crisp and juicy, excellent for fresh eating, cooking, juice or storing (up to 6 months).

Gemini: Medium-sized, red apple with yellow streaks. Crisp, sweet, and juicy white flesh that ripens in late summer. Great for fresh eating or cooking and stores well into the new year.

Goodland: Large, light green apple with a red blush. Crisp, late summer apple for eating fresh, cooking and can be stored for up to 4 months.

Kerr: Hardy, productive, late-season, purple-red apple/crab cross with yellow flesh. Excellent for preserves, juices and stores for up to 6 months. Often added to cider blends to add character. Sweetens after first frost. .

Dolgo: A heavy cropper, easy to grow, and an excellent pollinator. One of the best all-purpose crab apples. It is a very tart little apple, but it can be eaten fresh if you like pucker power. It makes a rich, ruby red jelly. Bullet proof hardy in the Edmonton region. Produces a sharp aromatic juice.

Whitney: This is a quality crab apple for cider makers. It produces a particularly good juice for cider with a good level of sugar plus a pleasantly mild astringency, which adds to the mouthfeel and body of the cider. It’s a great pollinator, easy to grow and highly productive. It’s also sweet enough to eat fresh as well as use in jellies and other preserves.

Gloria: Medium-sized, red speckled fruit with a sweet and slightly spicy strawberry flavor. Great for fresh eating and cooking.

Collet: Medium-sized, green apple with red stripes. Good for eating fresh, cooking and desserts. Stores 10-12 weeks. Pick after first frost (up to -4C). Extremely hardy with excellent disease resistance.

Harcourt: Medium-sized, red striped and naturally lightly waxed apple with a crisp, mild-flavoured white flesh. Excellent for eating, baking and juicing. Ripens late summer – early fall.

Odyssey: A hardy, medium-large, Manitoba apple. Chartreuse with a red blush. Ripens in late summer. Fruit is crisp and sweet with a similar taste to Gala. Perfect for baking, preserving, or eating straight off the tree.

Fall Red: A super cold hardy red apple with sweet, crisp white flesh that is great for eating fresh and stores well. Fruit ripens in late summer to early fall.

Zestar!: A super cold-hardy red apple with yellow blush. Sweet, crisp white flesh that is great for eating fresh and stores well. Fruit ripens in late summer to early fall.

Norland: A medium-sized, green apple with red stripes. Good for eating fresh and baking. Stores well if picked under-ripe. Fruit will drop when ripe in summer. Heavy producer early in life.

Parkland: A small to medium-sized, green-yellow apple with red on sunny side. Crisp, juicy, cream-white flesh with green hue. Good for eating fresh and cooking.

Rescue Crabapple: Hardy, productive, medium-sized green-yellow crabapple with red wash and stripes. Sweet, cream coloured flesh is good for fresh eating, cooking and jellies.

TreasuRed: Prairie hardy apple with a compact, columnar growth habit – grows only 3′ wide! Large, cherry red coloured fruit ripens in early fall and has crisp, white flesh. Great for storing, baking, or fresh eating.

Red Sparkle: A medium red-over-green washed apple with a nutty/fruity taste. A crisp and juicy apple, with good eating, baking and storage qualities. Very hardy.

September Ruby: The hardiest apple tree for the north (zone 1). A large, sweet, bright red, fall apple excellent for fresh eating and juicing with good storage qualities.

Wonders behold – a red-fleshed crabapple! Aside from the rather spectacular appearance of the fruit, Red Wonder also produces apples with a pinch of tart, sweet and spice, making them ideal for fresh eating or baking.

Red Gemini: Medium-sized, red apple. Crisp, sweet, and juicy white flesh that ripens in late summer. Great for fresh eating or cooking and stores well into the new year.

Norkent: Green with red streaks. Good eating fresh, baking and storage qualities. Medium-large, hardy, crisp, juicy, late summer apple tastes similar to Golden Delicious.

Prairie Magic: Hardy Manitoba apple. Medium-large green fruit with red blush, ripens in mid-September. Lightly scented, white, spring blossoms. Sweet and crisp texture. Excellent for fresh eating/cooking.

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