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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Gallery – Autumn Sunshine on Allotment Apples
A morning visit to the allotment just happened to coincide with a glorious burst of autumn sunshine, so I snapped a few apple pics to celebrate.
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Stepover Apple Trees: Winter Pruning, Year Six
Six years on and the two stepover apple trees on our allotment are thriving under a winter-only pruning regime.
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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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Stepover Apple Tree Update – Spring 2024 Edition
Time to check in on my allotment grown, winter pruned, stepover trained apple trees, ‘Keswick Codlin’ and ‘Howgate Wonder’.
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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.
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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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Fruit Thinning in Action – Thinned vs Un-Thinned Apples
A short post with photos to demonstrate the benefits of removing excess fruitlets. (Again with the fruit thinning..!)
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More Canker! This Time on a Cordon Apple Tree
Another dose of apple canker, this time on a cordon tree and with an even more drastic remedy required.
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Stepover Apple Trees: Winter Pruning, Year Two
A follow-up to last year’s stepover winter pruning post, with details of re-growth and this year’s pruning.
