Darren T | Orchard Notes

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.

I’ve been shunning the standard advice and only winter pruning trained apple trees for three years now. Here’s how it’s going.

A recently published research paper has outlined some of the possible implications of climate change for orchard growers.

In the face of all the best advice to the contrary, I’ve decided to try growing a new apple variety or two from seed.

Here’s an eighteenth century recipe for boozy, sugary, fried apple fritters that sounds like sweet simplicity itself.

Here’s how I went about creating a ‘family’ apple tree of six varieties, using the rind grafting technique.

Got an old fruit tree that could do with a boost? Mr Bellingham has a suggestion, but you might not like it very much…

I’ve pruned two very different crab apples this year – here’s how I approached each one, and the results of the work.

Spring-time in the orchard and beautiful blossom buds are about to burst into life. So why is it such a tense and worrying time..?

Here’s a fool-proof dish of stewed fruit, sugar, cream and eggs from a nineteenth century collection of veggie recipes.