Apples, apples and …………. apples!

I picked the last apple tree clean just now. It’s a Fiesta, which is a green, crisp apple with a lovely juicy bite and a clean, appley, Cox like flavour. Ken Muir, the grower, says that the season is October to December, and as you might expect from that, they weren’t...
Even more plums, a few apples and yukky fingers

Even more plums, a few apples and yukky fingers

I harvested another 10kg of Victoria plums yesterday, 1.7kg of Discovery apples. Plus 3.3kg of wasp ruined, spotty Scrumptious apples from the back garden. These were, by a long way, the best apples last year. They’re not very good this year! The 2 plums on the top of...