Fruit Harvest Highlights – Autumn 2025 Edition
Part two of my harvest highlights from a superb fruit-growing year features plenty of autumn apples, pears, medlars and more.
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Gallery: The Wondrous ‘Howgate Wonder’, Champion Apple of 2025
Once again, the largest, most impressive apple that I’ve harvested this year is the mighty, mighty H.W.
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Fruit Harvest Highlights – Summer 2025 Edition
2025 has been an incredible year for all types of fruit. Here’s part one of my harvest highlights.
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Cordon Apple Tree Update – Autumn 2025 Edition
We’ve had a terrific year for apples and the mature cordon trees on our allotment plot have been very productive indeed.
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My Apple Harvest Highlights – 2024 Edition
It has been a very good year indeed for apples; here’s my pick of the crop from our allotment, and the orchards at Quarry Bank.
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My Fruit Harvest Highlights – 2023 Edition
It’s my 2023 fruit growing round-up! The highs and the lows, the good and the bad, the weird and the wonderful.
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A Few Top Tips for Orchard Harvest Season
In which I re-post a selection of how-to articles that will help you get the best from your apple and pear harvests this autumn.
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Harvest 2022 – Top Fruit from the Allotment Orchard
Here are the extended highlights of this year’s harvest of apples, pears, quinces, plums and damsons. Top fruit galore!
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How Do You Like Them (‘Howgate Wonder’) Apples?
These two rather Wonderous apples were harvested this week from the stepover tree on our allotment plot.
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Edmund Saul Dixon, on Keeping Apples in Sand
Apples to store over winter? A few hundredweight of pit-sand, a kiln and several large jars to-hand? It’s your lucky day, isn’t it?
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Robert Ingram, on Not Picking Pears Too Early
When it comes to perfect pears, practicing patience is the prudent path to proper picking.
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Quick Reminder: How to Pick Apples and Pears
With harvest season starting, here’s a reminder of how to pick apples and pears without doing undue damage in the process.
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‘Beauty of Bath’ is our First Apple of 2021
The first apples of 2021 are ready for picking and in the Plot #79 orchard, that means it’s time for ‘Beauty of Bath’
