Fresh V's Frozen

**Amber Leaf** · 10-21-2008, 01:53 AM

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**tepelus** · 10-21-2008, 02:47 AM

Britain is too cold to grow apples? Can't be colder than Michigan, where I lived most of my life, we grow apples there, including Granny Smith's.

**Amber Leaf** · 10-21-2008, 11:52 AM

quite a few websites claimed britain was too cold to grow granny smiths. Are they grown outside in Mitchigan because if so then im going to have to change this?

**tepelus** · 10-21-2008, 02:03 PM

We have lots of apple orchards in Michigan, of all sorts of different kinds of apples. A friend of mine has a small apple orchard in the back part of her property, though the trees are overgrown and in need of some pruning, she does have some Granny Smith's, her favorite of all of them. We can get very cold winters with a lot of days below freezing, way below freezing.

**Amber Leaf** · 10-21-2008, 07:18 PM

I think it depends on what the summers are like ttth. The article I read mentioned that they needed a very warm summer to be produced (which is something we can't rely on over here).

It mentioned in France that they can grow but they have a red blush because the summer nights can be quite cold. I'm sure that's why all our apples are mainly red or poisenous.