Captain Davis of the Confederate army was discharged in North Carolina at the end of the Civil War, and disheartened and war-weary, he headed off on foot for his home in Kosciusko, MS. Somewhere in the mountains of the Carolinas he found an apple tree, the apples of which were the best he had ever …
DISEASE RESISTANCE AMONG APPLE VARIETIES IS RELATIVE, NOT ABSOLUTE! The concept of disease resistance among apple varieties seems to be often misunderstood. Rarely is resistance so strong that it is absolute or immune. There are some bona fide scab-immune apple varieties (e.g., Williams Pride, Liberty, Pristine, and Enterprise), and there are some cedar apple rust-resistant …
Apples are one of the most difficult crops to grow without pesticides, BUT it is possible if you abide with three key rules: Get the right varieties—get the disease resistant varieties we offer on the right rootstock. You won’t have to worry at all about cedar apple rust, fireblight, scab, or mildew. (Summer rots of …