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This is the list of apples that I'm planning on planting at our new house next spring. Has anyone grown any of them and what are your thoughts about them?

Ashmead's Kernel
Bel de Boskoop
Gold Rush
Queen Cox
Whitney Crab

I also plan on growing Honey Crisp and Granny Smith, but I know plenty about them. Some may not be quite right for my area every year, but if I get a crop occasionally I'm good. They will be dwarfs that grow to 8-14 ft depending on variety. Yay big lot.

Yes, the Honey Crisp! Love it.
Planted two Honey Crisp trees in the spring of 2014 and had two good fruit in the fall that year. As the spring 2015 came and jack rabbits started looking for food and when everything still covered with snow they found my honey Crisp trunk bark and chewed it from the graft up to the branches and part s of the branches. That was disappointment. 

I have a Witney Crab, but it's in its first year. I planted it this spring.  I also have newly planted:

Saint Edmund's Pippin (enthusiastically recommended by a friend who swore it tasted like vanilla ice cream)
Niedzwetzkyana (red fleshed variety I got for the novelty)

I also have an old espaliered Apple, which I think might be a Fuji, but it hasn't fruited since it's first year planted. It hadn't been taken care of. I'm trying to change that.

Your Apples sound interesting, but I don't have any experience with them.

If it tastes like Vanilla ice cream then I will skip it and keep looking for one that tastes like Heavenly-Hush ice cream. 

I haven't tried any of those varieties other then the honey crisp. I prefer Liberty, Empire and macoun. I tried Empire for the first time with fall and it had sweet honey notes with some floral, overall very good.

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Originally Posted by cis4elk
This is the list of apples that I'm planning on planting at our new house next spring. Has anyone grown any of them and what are your thoughts about them?

Ashmead's Kernel
Bel de Boskoop
Gold Rush
Queen Cox
Whitney Crab

I also plan on growing Honey Crisp and Granny Smith, but I know plenty about them. Some may not be quite right for my area every year, but if I get a crop occasionally I'm good. They will be dwarfs that grow to 8-14 ft depending on variety. Yay big lot.


Ashmead's Kernel is a very old apple variety, with a drab appearance which belies a unique peardrop flavour. Ashmead's Kernel is also one of very small number of English apple varieties that also thrives in North America.

here is a video link and you can also find information about lots of other varieties on his channel  

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