Latest Feature Articles
- Mid-Year Update, 2022 Edition
Here’s a quick summary of my various orchard-related activities so far this year. - Orchard Visit: Prospect Orchard, Llanidloes, PowysA summer afternoon in June was the perfect time to visit the home of Welsh Mountain Cider.
- Top-Fruit Thinning Season is Here AgainIt’s that fruitlet thinning time of year again! Grab your sharpest snips and head on down to your orchard.
- Stepover Apple Trees: Winter Pruning, Year ThreeI’ve been shunning the standard advice and only winter pruning trained apple trees for three years now. Here’s how it’s going.
- Climate Change in the Orchard: Later Frosts, Earlier Harvests?A recently published research paper has outlined some of the possible implications of climate change for orchard growers.
- Seedling Apple Trees – Let’s Give ’em a GoIn the face of all the best advice to the contrary, I’ve decided to try growing a new apple variety or two from seed.
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Most Recent Posts & Articles
- Robert May, on Making a ‘Quodling Pie’Here’s a C17th windfall apple apple pie that’s spiced and iced, although the recipe is frustratingly imprecise.
- Charlotte Mason, on Making ‘Green Codling Pudding’You know what you don’t see enough of these days? A bright green apple pie filling. This C18th recipe tells us how to make one.
- Mid-Year Update, 2022 EditionHere’s a quick summary of my various orchard-related activities so far this year.
- Orchard Visit: Prospect Orchard, Llanidloes, PowysA summer afternoon in June was the perfect time to visit the home of Welsh Mountain Cider.
- W. M. on Making ‘Gooseberry Fool’This C17th version of the classic fool is thickened with butter, sugar and egg yolks rather than the usual milk or cream.
- Robert May, on Preserving Green FruitsHere’s a quick seventeenth century guide to preserving green or under-ripe fruit: gooseberries, plums, pippins, peaches and grapes.
- Top-Fruit Thinning Season is Here AgainIt’s that fruitlet thinning time of year again! Grab your sharpest snips and head on down to your orchard.
- Eliza Smith, on Making ‘Gooseberry Tansey’Here’s an eighteenth century drop-scone pancake type recipe to help you use up some of your gooseberry glut.
- Marion Harland, on Making ‘Frosted Peaches’This nineteenth century peach of a recipe is guaranteed to add a bit of sparkle to your dinner party dessert course.
- Stepover Apple Trees: Winter Pruning, Year ThreeI’ve been shunning the standard advice and only winter pruning trained apple trees for three years now. Here’s how it’s going.
- Climate Change in the Orchard: Later Frosts, Earlier Harvests?A recently published research paper has outlined some of the possible implications of climate change for orchard growers.
- Seedling Apple Trees – Let’s Give ’em a GoIn the face of all the best advice to the contrary, I’ve decided to try growing a new apple variety or two from seed.
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