Question: I have heard a Texas A&M expert recommend specific fruit varieties for North Central Texas on your WBAP radio program. What are those varieties?

Answer: Fruit Varieties for Texas
Your county Extension office maintains a list of Texas A&M-recommended varieties of fruit and pecans for your area.

Specifically, for North Central Texas
For our Website visitors from the North Central Texas region, Dr. George Ray McEachern, Fruit and Pecan Specialist from Texas A&M recommended the following 10 varieties as being the best of each class for that part of the state as he is an annual guest on Neil Sperry's Texas Gardening radio program.

Pear: Orient
Plum: Methley
Peach: Red Globe
Blackberry: Arapaho
Pecan: Caddo
Fig: Celeste
Persimmon: Eureka
Grape, white: Blanc du Bois
Grape, red: Champanel
Grape, purple: Black Spanish
Muscadine: Black Beauty
Citrus: Satsuma Mr. Mac
Apple: Holland