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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
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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.