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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.

Published May 7, 2022
Categorised as Orchard Cookery Tagged C19th, Marion Harland, peach dessert, peach recipe

Stepover Apple Trees: Winter Pruning, Year Three

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

Published April 30, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged apples, Blenheim Orange, blossom, bourse, brindille, dard, howgate wonder, keswick codlin, winter pruning

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.

Published April 23, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Science Tagged academic paper, Achim Kunz, apple, blossom, climate change, frost, harvest, Michael Blanke, research

Seedling Apple Trees – Let’s Give ’em a Go

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.

Published April 15, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work Tagged experiment, germination, herefordshire russet, propagation, seedling

Charlotte Mason, on Making ‘German Fritters’

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

Published April 6, 2022
Categorised as Orchard Cookery Tagged apple dessert, apple recipe, apples, C18th, Charlotte Mason

How To: Top-Graft a ‘Family’ Apple Tree

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

Published April 2, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Grafting Tagged apple, catshead, grafting, orleans reinette, rind grafting, rosemary russet, tydemans early worcester, wareham russet, worcester pearmain

Charles Bellingham, on Recovering Old Trees, C17th Style

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

Published April 1, 2022
Categorised as Quotations Tagged C17th, Charles Bellingham, fertilisation

A Tale of Two Crab Apple Trees

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

Published March 26, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged crab apple, john downie, maintenance pruning, restoration pruning, winter pruning

Orchard Blossom Season is Almost Here

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..?

Published March 23, 2022
Categorised as Gallery Tagged apple, blossom, cherry, Morello, pear, Plot #79, quince

John Smith, on Making Gooseberry, Apple or Rhubarb Cream

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

Published March 15, 2022
Categorised as Orchard Cookery Tagged C19th, gooseberry, gooseberry recipe, John Smith, rhubarb, rhubarb recipe

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FavColour_GreenMegan@FavColour_Green·
24 May

Is it time we extend the rules re: hedge cutting beyond farmers?

Seems wrong that theres one rule for one &another for farmers..

This is certainly illegal regardless (not a chance in hell there weren't nesting birds here!) But hedges should be protected whoever owns them https://twitter.com/B_Strawbridge/status/1528411574792249344

Brigit Strawbridge@B_Strawbridge

In the last 48 hours, a local landowner has cut down ALL the trees along the edge of his fields adjoining the road, sparing none, not even mature Oaks. He's done this bang in the middle of the bird nesting season. 4

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24 May

Roman geographer Gaius Julius Solinus: “A people who live near the source of the Ganges live only on the smell of wild apples; if they smell something offensive, they immediately die.” From our latest Apple Story: 'The Gangines of the Mappa Mundi' available on our website.

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24 May

Green Action Day at #Shipley Fields
Thurs 23 June, 4-7pm
The orchard and jam hedge need a little bit summery TLC. All welcome to help top up the woodchip mulch and do a bit of weeding.
Wear gardening gloves and bring a wheelbarrow if you can.
Apple juice and snacks provided!

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