Long time readers may know that I am a big fan of the HoneyCrisp apple. It's amazing how much you can love an apple variety but there you have it. So I was pretty excited to hear about the new SweeTango apple. The SweeTango was developed at the University of Minnesota, the same as the HoneyCrisp. The SweeTango is in fact a cross betwen the HoneyCrisp and Zestar! I didn't add the ! to Zestar! on purpose. The ! is part of the Zestar! name.
Anyhoo, we are lucky enough to have a local orchard growing SweeTangos and we got a few of them. Oh yahh... they are tasty! My only complaint is the ones we got are so darn big! About half way through one of these bad boys I have to take a break. Not a bad problem to have really.
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I'm pretty sure the trademarked name is SweeTango with only one T. I know they are delicious ... we have them all over MN.
I heard this story on NPR that they're not allowed to grow Sweetangos outside of Minnesota. I'm curious how your orchard got them.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/09/17/sweetango-disagreement/.
They are also grown in Upstate NY. Fowler Farms in Wolcott, NY has a small orchard of the trees with lots of fruit this year.
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