Episode 75 - The Apples I’m Planting: Whitney Crab

All right, and the last apple that I'm planting this year is called the Whitney Crab.

Why chose this apple? Okay, right off the bat, you're probably thinking like, why in the world would you pick a crab apple to grow? Why would you want to do that? That doesn't make any sense, right? They're just kind of a nuisance or something that you find growing somewhere and they just fall on the ground here and no one eats them and they're too tart and like that.

I think crab apples got a bad rap, but they are amazing.

So here's the scoop.

So one reason I wanted to grow a crab apple and this crab apple called the Whitney crab apple is because that crab apples are a great tree to have in your orchard to help pollinate the other apples in your orchard.

So they flower big and well.

The bees love them, so they'll be attracted to the Whitney crabapple.

Then they'll go and visit other apple trees that you have growing and help just pollinate them better.

So I think it's a good thing, and a lot of people do this for their orchards, whether it's big orchards, small orchards, is to have some crab apples around for that very purpose.

But not all crab apples are created the same.

If your only experience with crab apples is some little tiny apple growing on your property or somewhere else that you only saw as something to throw at other kids when you were a kid or something like that, crab apples can be so much more than that.

And so I decided to pick the Whitney crabapple because it is a highly regarded heirloom variety known for producing large for crabapples.

All right, and the last apple that I'm planting this year is called the Whitney Crab.

Why chose this apple? Okay, right off the bat, you're probably thinking like, why in the world would you pick a crab apple to grow? Why would you want to do that? That doesn't make any sense, right? They're just kind of a nuisance or something that you find growing somewhere and they just fall on the ground here and no one eats them and they're too tart and like that.

I think crab apples got a bad rap, but they are amazing.

So here's the scoop.

So one reason I wanted to grow a crab apple and this crab apple called the Whitney crab apple is because that crab apples are a great tree to have in your orchard to help pollinate the other apples in your orchard.

So they flower big and well.

The bees love them, so they'll be attracted to the Whitney crabapple.

Then they'll go and visit other apple trees that you have growing and help just pollinate them better.

So I think it's a good thing, and a lot of people do this for their orchards, whether it's big orchards, small orchards, is to have some crab apples around for that very purpose.

But not all crab apples are created the same.

If your only experience with crab apples is some little tiny apple growing on your property or somewhere else that you only saw as something to throw at other kids when you were a kid or something like that, crab apples can be so much more than that.

And so I decided to pick the Whitney crabapple because it is a highly regarded heirloom variety known for producing large for crabapples.