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Oh Bring Us A Figgy Pudding (Or Else..!)

Fine, you can have the pudding! Just stop singing at me. And you have to promise not to come back again tomorrow, okay?

Published December 24, 2022
Categorised as Orchard Cookery Tagged Christmas, fig, pudding, raisin, yuletide

A Frost-Pruned Fig Tree, and What Happened Next

Last year our fig tree was hit by a late frost. Every apical bud and fruitlet was killed. But that was far from the end of the story…

Published February 26, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Morphology Tagged fig, frost damage, growth pattern, regrowth

More Fruit Stories from Atlas Obscura

Here’s another selection of fruit-related stories from the Atlas Obscura archives.

Published January 18, 2022
Categorised as Linking Out Tagged apple, apple dessert, apricot, Atlas Obscura, family tree, fig, grapefruit, heritage varieties, lemon, manicheel, miscellany, nectarine, orchards, peach, persimmon, plum, torture orchard

The Austin Manuscripts, on Making Fygeye

Another medieval fruit pudding for you, this time a concoction of figs, ale and breadcrumbs, spiced with cinnamon.

Published May 12, 2021
Categorised as Orchard Cookery Tagged Austin Manuscripts, C15th, fig, fygeye

Now Collecting Historical Orchard Recipes

I’ve started putting together an index page of the archive recipes that I’m posting on the site.

Published April 25, 2021
Categorised as Site Updates Tagged apple, bullace, cherry, damson, fig, medlar, nectarine, orchard cookery, orchard history, peach, pear, plum, pluot, quince, research project, warden

Planting Our Fig Tree

In which we introduce our new fig tree to its fig-pit home.

Published February 19, 2017
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work Tagged fig, fig pit, mycorrhizal fungi, tree planting

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26 Jan

Bit o Apple grafting, I’m a bit of a Ebernezer Scrooge when in comes to the apple collection growing my own rootstocks, I don’t use grafting tape or grafting wax anymore just cut up freezer bags , if I’m feeling rich lll get some scions from the NFC

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fruitdiseases KhanLab @fruitdiseases ·
26 Jan

Beautiful illustration showing impact of manure application on the roots & shoot development of Golden Winter Parmen #Apples tree (1957) in “The Root System of Fruit Plants” by Venedikt Kolesnikov!

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applesandpeople ApplesandPeople @applesandpeople ·
26 Jan

Windfall apples have been strung together in the autumn for bird food during the winter months.

Photo: © Christopher Preece 2023 for Apples & People @preecer

'In 1600, Herefordshire was one continuous orchard. Now, only precious remnants stand tall.

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