Tag: medlar | Orchard Notes

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!

Wondering what to do with your medlars once they start dropping from the tree? Here’s a C17th recipe that might come in useful.

Making medlar cheese and medlar jelly are great ways to get the best out of this unusual and tasty Autumn fruit. Here’s how.

We’ve had a mixed year on our allotment plot orchard. Here’s a round-up of the good, the bad and the downright ugly.

One of the most reliable fruits in the heritage orchard has a very long history and a very unique flavour.

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

Darren T on Conrad Heresbach (and Barnaby Googe) on GraffingMarch 12, 2023
You're welcome Brigitte, glad you found in interesting :)
Brigitte Webster on Conrad Heresbach (and Barnaby Googe) on GraffingMarch 12, 2023
Really interesting! Thank you! Learnt a lot!
Darren T on A Frost-Pruned Fig Tree, and What Happened NextFebruary 26, 2023
Hi Rick - I'd say it depends on whether you're likely to have any more harsh frosts in north Alabama…
Rick on A Frost-Pruned Fig Tree, and What Happened NextFebruary 25, 2023
Should I cut back the frost bite tips of my fig tree? They are a much darker color than the…
Darren T on May Byron, on Making ‘Apples, Scalloped’February 12, 2023
That's a good point, pick a nice, tart cooking apple and it wouldn't be overly sugary. And that fig tart…