By Jim McCausland, Sunset Magazine
You plant apple trees in winter, usually based on a distant memory of what you liked. Then you wait three or four years for fruit, hoping that it's what you had in mind.
For more certainty, choose garden varieties now, while there's plenty of tree-ripened fruit to taste and compare. The best place to do it is at one of the fruit fairs scheduled around the West during the next six weeks. Here are several to choose from.
British Columbia
Salt Spring Island. Salt Spring Island Apple Festival, Oct 2
Vancouver. University of British Columbia Apple Festival, Oct 15–16
California
Fortuna. Apple Harvest Festival, Oct 1
Julian. Julian Apple Days Festival, Oct 1–2
Springville. Springville Apple Festival, Oct 15-16
Colorado
Cedaredge. Cedaredge Apple Festival, Oct 1-2
Oregon
Clackamas County Fairgrounds. Home Orchard Society All About Fruit Show, Oct 15-16
Hood River. Heirloom Apple Celebration, Oct 22-23
Washington
Green Bluff. Green Bluff Apple Festival, weekends through Oct 30
Lynnwood. Seattle Tree Fruit Society Fall Fruit Show, Oct 23
Vancouver. Old Apple Tree Festival, Oct 1
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