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Further to my Ida Red thread, I bought some Red Delicious apples from
a supermarket(sorry) and I have to say that it did not live up to it's
name ;(

Do home grown ones taste any better?

Apparently both Golden and Red Delicious can, indeed, be delicious
when you grow them at home. The trick is that you must eat them
off the tree - do not under any circumstances detach the apple from
the granch until you have finished.

We had a 50-year old tree like that (though it wasn't either), and
ended up using some of the apples for cooking and leaving the rest
to fall and rot.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.