Apple 'Clara's Creek Apple'

This is a first-rate cooking apple obtained in 1999 from Mrs. Clara Daugherty, a very sweet 94 year-old lady who lives here in Ashe Co. S...Read Morehe and her late husband once had a large apple orchard in the 1940's and sold apples throughout North Carolina and Tennessee. The Creek Apple arose as a seedling on the banks of a small creek which runs through her property. Clara contacted us with a request to graft the apple so she could transplant the tree to a more secure location. Too many of the apples would ripen and fall into the creek and be swept downstream. Clara proclaims this to be a much better cooking apple than Wolf River. High praise indeed! Fruit is medium-sized with tan to greenish-yellow skin which closely resembles Golden Delicious. Flesh is firm, crisp and quite sour in flavor. It cooks up quickly but does not store well. A dependable bearer ripening in late August.