These London-area farmers say this year’s apples are some of the biggest ever [Video]

It’s that time of year. Apples are ripening in orchards across southwestern Ontario, revealing their brilliant reds, yellows and greens.

But some London-area farmers are finding there’s something unusual about this year’s apple crop, thanks to all that summer rain and heat: their big size. 

“The size is tremendous this year,” said Philip Crunican of family-run apple farm, Crunican Orchards. 

“We’re very happy with the size,” he said, estimating they are about 20 to 30 per cent larger than usual.

Crunican Orchards typically harvests about 2 million apples per year on their 30 acres of orchards along Highway 4, just south of Lucan. 

The last time he said he remembers seeing apples close to as big was in 1992, a cool wet year. 

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