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Category: Top Fruit Harvesting

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!

Published October 23, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Harvesting Tagged apple, cordon, damson, harvest, medlar, pear, plum, quince, stepover, top fruit

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.

Published October 10, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Harvesting Tagged apple, heritage, howgate wonder, Ordsall Hall

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?

Published October 6, 2021
Categorised as Quotations, Top Fruit Harvesting Tagged apple, C19th, Edmund Saul Dixon, storing

Robert Ingram, on Not Picking Pears Too Early

When it comes to perfect pears, practicing patience is the prudent path to proper picking.

Published October 1, 2021
Categorised as Quotations, Top Fruit Harvesting Tagged C19th, fruit picking, harvesting, pear, Robert Ingram

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.

Published September 2, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Harvesting Tagged harvesting, picking, tree health

‘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’

Published August 12, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Harvesting Tagged apple, Beauty of Bath, harvesting, phase I, picking
  1. Darren T on Gallery: Lifecycle of an Apple, From Bud to Blossom to FruitJune 4, 2023

    You're welcome! :)

  2. Camille on Gallery: Lifecycle of an Apple, From Bud to Blossom to FruitJune 3, 2023

    Sorry for the delayed response, but thank you very much for all this information. I will keep it to refer…

  3. Darren T on How To: Thin Out Apple and Pear FruitletsJune 3, 2023

    Thank you Oltice, I'm very glad it was helpful. Thinning really is one of the most useful and important things…

  4. Oltice on How To: Thin Out Apple and Pear FruitletsJune 2, 2023

    This was absolutely brilliant. I know now why my apple tree doesn't produce any fruits this year, after having millions…

  5. Darren T on Dealing With Pear Midge Problems the Organic WayJune 2, 2023

    I'm sorry Ruth, but I don't have much experience with spraying, so I wouldn't know what to advise there. I…

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