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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

Orchard Visit: Two at Phillips Park, Prestwich

A winter walk leads to the discovery of not one but two new orchards, one on the site of a former kitchen garden.

Published December 30, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Visits Tagged apple, Bury, forest garden, greengage, Incredible Edibles, Manchester, new orchard, Phillips Park, plum, Prestwich

Plot #79 Orchard Year in Review, 2021 Edition

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.

Published November 28, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work Tagged 2021 update, apple, apple canker, codling moth, fireblight, medlar, pear, pigeon, Plot #79, plum

Mary Smith, on Drying ‘Green Gage Plumbs’

This eighteenth century method for drying greengages calls for candying your plum(b)s in syrup before setting them to dry.

Published September 29, 2021
Categorised as Orchard Cookery Tagged C18th, drying, greengage, Mary Smith, plum, preserved fruit, sugar syrup

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

Au Revoir to Pear, Plum and Damson Blossom?

Two nights of bad weather after early blossom has bloomed is bad news, but hopefully not the end of this year’s crop.

Published April 11, 2021
Categorised as Orchard Science Tagged blossom, damson, frost, pear, plum, severe weather

‘A Lady’, on Making Paste of Plumbs

The anonymous author of this 18th century tract takes time our from moralising to make something jammy.

Published March 26, 2021
Categorised as Orchard Cookery Tagged A Lady, C18th, plum, plum recipe, preserved fruit

Gallery: Top-Fruit Blossom, Spring 2020

2020 has been a rather excellent year for fruit blossom. Here’s a gallery of some examples I’ve seen in various places.

Published May 1, 2020
Categorised as Feature Articles, Gallery Tagged apple, blossom, pear, plum

Restoration Pruning of an Overgrown Plum Tree

Improving the branch structure of an overgrown and crowded plum tree on our allotment plot.

Published August 25, 2019
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged plum, restoration pruning

Aphid Update: Damson Saved, Plum Under Threat

Just when I thought the 2019 aphid night mare might have ended…

Published August 1, 2019
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard P&D Tagged aphid, pest control, plum

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Is it time we extend the rules re: hedge cutting beyond farmers?

Seems wrong that theres one rule for one &another for farmers..

This is certainly illegal regardless (not a chance in hell there weren't nesting birds here!) But hedges should be protected whoever owns them https://twitter.com/B_Strawbridge/status/1528411574792249344

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In the last 48 hours, a local landowner has cut down ALL the trees along the edge of his fields adjoining the road, sparing none, not even mature Oaks. He's done this bang in the middle of the bird nesting season. 4

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24 May

Roman geographer Gaius Julius Solinus: “A people who live near the source of the Ganges live only on the smell of wild apples; if they smell something offensive, they immediately die.” From our latest Apple Story: 'The Gangines of the Mappa Mundi' available on our website.

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24 May

Green Action Day at #Shipley Fields
Thurs 23 June, 4-7pm
The orchard and jam hedge need a little bit summery TLC. All welcome to help top up the woodchip mulch and do a bit of weeding.
Wear gardening gloves and bring a wheelbarrow if you can.
Apple juice and snacks provided!

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