Edible Gardening

If the bees hadn't pollinated them, they wouldn't have set at all..... there's time yet for them to swell! It's normal for them to lose some half formed apples at this time of year.. it's called the June drop (yes... I know it's July).... It's just the tree's way of not producing too many for...

we cleared the lawn of all the scanking ones a few days ago to have a BBQ......while we sat chatting (and watching our heads....BBQ is under the apple tree and man are these apples lethal when they drop....haha) i picked up the freshly dropped ones and made my 1st ever apple pie.....it was...

They keep for years if you cut them into rings and dry them

Does no one use proper cooking apples these days?

Hi Erin If your cookers (apples) have brown spots on them and maybe the leaf has blackish spots you may have the on onset of spore disease (Brown rot) suggest you monitor for worsening effects (rotting fruit on tree) and if this is the case do not compost the fruit or leaves. I think a lot of...

Hi, my first post since last year. I bought a apple tree last year. one of those slimline ones to go in a large container(forget the name). If calgary logs in, its just to say mines been in flower a week now. although i must admit i thought id lost it. It came to life all at once :O)Nice to...

Best wishes! Apples are among the most variable species grown by man. Five pips from the same plant may easily result in five completely different trrees and fruits. But if you grow them from seed just for the fun of it wihtout special expectation regarding fruit you will have fun.

If, when you hold the apple and it comes away easily in your hand then it is ripe. Anything else and they are not ready.

Seems our media section doesn't show up in the whats new listings, so just thought i'd highlight the latest video in there.

Thanks for the info girls interesting site.

I take the cardboard apple boxes from Sainsburys with the fruit trays in them (those sheets of cardboard/paper that have the indentations in them for each apple). They only get thrown out so Sainsburys are happy for you to take them. So as not to be accused of discrimination :hehe: :- there...

Inside on the wall of the walled garden . They are now growing ever so quick.

Piccy? Check the roots for vine weevil

Hi I had a james greives apple tree that the shoots and leaves kept ing dieing and looked to be cankered bought a red devil apple tree thinking it would do better but its cankered all round on the main trunck it's only 2 years old , I have a 3 year old fiesta that seems to be ok and I got a...

pity you cant train on to a fence or a wall

June drop.....all those little ones will fall off.

How did you guess?

looking at what you received... is a pitiful sight ... and tickled pink !! oh my !which company did you receive it from ?

I found a website yesterday which has reviews for many apple varieties, some good reading:

We have a wild apple tree growing nearby which has lovely looking fruit but absolutely tasteless! I guess it grew from a core someone threw out.