Latest Feature Articles
- Top-Fruit Thinning Season is Here Again
It’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.
- How To: Top-Graft a ‘Family’ Apple TreeHere’s how I went about creating a ‘family’ apple tree of six varieties, using the rind grafting technique.
- A Tale of Two Crab Apple TreesI’ve pruned two very different crab apples this year – here’s how I approached each one, and the results of the work.
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Most Recent Posts & Articles
- 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.
- Charlotte Mason, on Making ‘German Fritters’Here’s an eighteenth century recipe for boozy, sugary, fried apple fritters that sounds like sweet simplicity itself.
- How To: Top-Graft a ‘Family’ Apple TreeHere’s how I went about creating a ‘family’ apple tree of six varieties, using the rind grafting technique.
- Charles Bellingham, on Recovering Old Trees, C17th StyleGot an old fruit tree that could do with a boost? Mr Bellingham has a suggestion, but you might not like it very much…
- A Tale of Two Crab Apple TreesI’ve pruned two very different crab apples this year – here’s how I approached each one, and the results of the work.
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