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J NOODLES COMEDY StfOPPE ! 228 North 12th Street 479-0900 i (Above the Spaghetti Woirkti) Jj Nebraska apple harvest underway, orchards grow more than apples By Joeth Zucco Senior Editor Nebraska City is famous for many things: John Brown’s cave, home of the National Arbor Day Foundation and apple orchards. The city is surrounded by three apple orchards: Kimmel Orchard, J. Sterling Morton Orchard and Tree Farm and Catron Orchard. Kimmel Orchard, a commercial orchard since the late 1920s, is lo-' cated northwest of Nebraska City on Highway 75. Harvesting of the fall season apples is in its third week and will last until Oct. 31, Manager Dan Giittinger said. A large majority of the all-pur pose apples are harvested at this time. Giittinger said these include Jonathon, Red and Golden Deli cious, Grimes Golden and King David apples. Besides the fall sea son apples, there are seven varieties of summer apples and two varieties of winter keeping apples. “Each variety has its own pur pose," Giittinger said. “While one may be good for cooking, another may be good for eating.” As an example, he said that green apples are better for apple sauce. Other apples such as Whit ney Crab are used for jelly, pickles and eating or Lodi which are good for sauce, pies and eating. The wide variety of apples come from chance seedlings. In nature, the process is done by bees polli nating the blossoms, the pollinated apples falling to the ground and the seeds planted. In the laboratory, man has created such apples as the Jonathon Gold. Giitlingcr and his father-in-law, William Oberdieck, have 5,000 trees on their 90-acre orchard. Giit tinger said that the apple Irenes are in all different stages of tree life. 'Ihe trees range from "just planted" to "beyond their peak," he said. During a normal year, 10 to 15 bushels of apples are harvested per tree and 3,000 to 4,000 bushels are I__t »_ Ilrtl VVO'V-U |/v,l .U IV. I iuw^v^i, villi linger said lhal in the 11 years he’s been with the orchard, he hasn’t seen a normal year yet. The orchard plants standard apples trees which produce quality fruit for 30 to 35 years and semi dwarf trees which produce quality fruit for 20 to 25 years. I le said that after a tree reaches its pea k, it is cut down and a new one is replanted. Southeast Nebraska is ideal for growing apples, Giillinger said. The weather and soil content con tribute to the quality of the fruit. The annual rainraus anu moderate win ters salvage the trees that thrive in the loess soil. Loess soil is "wind blown” soil. Giittinger said that it is only/ound along the Missouri Val ley and in parts of China. “Condition-wise we have more problems," he said. "We have to put up with hail and drought. But soil wise we feel we can grow an apple that is as good as anywhere in the world." The trees are cared for year round In the spring and summer, they are sprayed lor fungus and insects, and the orchards arc mowed to keep the weeds down. In the winter, the trees are pruned, so when the growing season returns, the light will be better distributed through the trees and the color of the apples will be enhanced. Besides apple trees, he said that 3,(XX) cherry trees occupy 30 acres of the orchard. Giittinger also has a the trees in the spring. Giittinger said that the products of the orchard are mostly sold on I location. Besides apples, the store sells apple and cherry cider, apple sauce, caramel apples, popcorn, I honey, honey combs, and frozen cherries. In addition to the orchard, Ideal Grocery in Lincoln sells apples and Baker’s Supermarkets in I Omaha sell cider. The orchard is mainly a family I operation except during the harvest | when 25 to 30 people are hired to I help grade, sell and pick apples. The orchard store is open 8a.m. to6pm. from the first of June till the I first of November, depending on the weather Kimmel Orchard store and pro duction headquarters located off Highway 75, northwest of I Lincoln. The store sells apple, cherry and honey products and Kpcorn. n Giittinger stands next to a I Jonathon apple tree. Off his 1 shoulder hanp a picking bag 9 used during the harvest The bag j can hold 30 pounds of apples.
