{"id":3337,"date":"2011-09-18T21:48:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T20:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2011-09-18T21:48:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T20:48:10","slug":"gravensteiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2011\/09\/18\/gravensteiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravensteiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn addition to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2008\/07\/14\/cherries\/\">excellent cherry tree<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2009\/08\/29\/damsons\/\">lovely damson bush<\/a>, we also have an apple tree. It doesn&rsquo;t get quite as much love and attention as the others &ndash; perhaps because it stands far away (relatively speaking) in a corner of the garden, and its fruit become edible late autumn (October-ish) rather than during summer when we we&rsquo;re all out in the garden all the time. But it does bear nice fruit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSince we first ate its fruit we&rsquo;ve wondered about what kind of apple it might be. Today we went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosendalstradgard.se\/\">Rosendal&rsquo;s tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rd<\/a> to find out. This weekend they have their annual apple and pear show, which includes representatives from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svepom.com\/\">Sweden&rsquo;s Pomological society<\/a> who sit there and inspect people&rsquo;s fruit and try to figure out what kind it may be.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWe brought them five of our apples. They looked and they cut and they tasted and they consulted their books, and they concluded that our apple tree is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gravenstein\">Gravensteiner<\/a>. &ldquo;Sweet, at first quite tart, very fine. Very old variety. Excellent both for eating and for cooking.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Apple_show.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to our excellent cherry tree and lovely damson bush, we also have an apple tree. It doesn&rsquo;t get quite as much love and attention as the others &ndash; perhaps because it stands far away (relatively speaking) in a corner of the garden, and its fruit become edible late autumn (October-ish) rather than during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house_and_garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3343,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions\/3343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}