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| Crab-apple Hewe's Crab | Apple Tom Putt | Apple Katy | |||
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| Summary | A popular crab-apple, also widely known as Virginia Crab, and producing a high-quality cider juice. | An old English cider apple which can also be used as a cooking apple. | A very attractive and easy-to-grow early apple variety from Sweden, properly called Katya - Katy is the anglicised name. | ||
Identification | Hewe's Crab | Tom Putt | Katy | ||
| Fruit colour | Red / Green | ||||
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Using | Hewe's Crab | Tom Putt | Katy | ||
| Flavor | Very good | Average | |||
| Flavour style | Sharper | ||||
| Ripening period | Mid season | ||||
| Use/Keeping | 1-2 months | 1 week | |||
| Cooking result | |||||
Growing | Hewe's Crab | Tom Putt | Katy | ||
| Picking | |||||
| Cropping | Good | Good | Heavy | ||
| Vigour | Average growth | Slightly large | Slightly large | ||
| Pollination | Flowering group 3 Self-fertile | Flowering group 3 Flowers Mid season Self-sterile | Flowering group 3 Self-sterile Blossom frost-resistance | ||
| Gardening skill | Average | Very easy | |||
| Problems | Scab - Some resistance | ||||
Other | Hewe's Crab | Tom Putt | Katy | ||
| Country of origin | United States | United Kingdom | Sweden | ||
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