final 2009 update on new pyramid pear section of orchard
Now the leaves are off you can see the pears have done well and have put on plenty of fruit bud on the 2008 wood and quite a lot of bud on the 2009 wood. I am planning to stake these and maintain centre leader dominance and prune an absolute minimum to encourage early fruiting. Varieties are...
Timing of apple picking, variety Sunset
A further illustrated lesson on picking apples at the right time. If you pick too early, flavour and colour will not be fully developed. If you leave it too late, apart from bird and wasp damage, the wind may blow them off and although you can pick up the fallers and wash and cook or make cider...
Apple varieties Tremlett's Bitter and Yarlington Mill
A view of some of our oldest apple trees. There are both bittersweet cider (hard cider to our American friends) varieties. Yoiu can't eat these as the flavour compounds known as tannins are unpleasantly bitter and drying in the mouth, but add greatly to the quality of the finished cider. check...
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apple picking technique
Ribston Pippin are supposed to be picked early October, but this is not always so. You must pick apples when they are ready, not when the book says. On 30th August we noticed they were falling freely and separating easily, so yesaterday and today picked the whole 20 trees, about 14 boxes of...
Apple Variety Orleans Reinette
My favourite apple, although not everyone's. Probably French in origin, first described in 1776. I have never seen it for sale in England, except on my market stall, although you see it in France, although usually grown too large and lacking colour due to their habit of over feeding and...
Picking plums as they ripen
We believe this plum to be variety Warwickshire Drooper, but are uncertain. We found it growing in the garden of the first house we bought in Southampton in 1981, and took some suckers from it which grew true to variety (so it must have been growing on its own roots). We then grafted a few. As...
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