Between 2007 – 2010 Liz Copas and Nick Poole set up the Dorset Apple Tree Analysis Project (DATA) in an effort to create a true Dorset cider from true Dorset cider varieties. They spent several years searched the remnants of traditional orchards across the county of Dorset to save any valuable old varieties hitherto unknown or ...
Course @Trill 29 Feb 2020 Need help with pruning your fruit trees? Want to learn about grafting apple trees? Wondering what to do and how to do it? Tom will be running a one day course on pruning fruit trees at Trill Farm in East Devon on Feb 29th. Learn how to prune for maximum yield and healthy trees in a beautiful young o ...
When can I plant fruit trees? You can plant bare-rooted fruit trees between late November – end of March, according to favourable weather conditions. Fruit trees bought in pots can be planted at any time of the year but will need continued watering if planted in the summer. Where shall I plant my tree? Plant your fruit tree ...
Tom Nancarrow wins best in show for Cider, Devon County Show 2018 ...
We have successfully planted out all of our bench grafted trees and our root stocks to be grafted in the summer, now we can just sit back and relax.... hmmm.... ...
1. Plan ahead for Fruit Storage - Pick the best fruit ahead of ripening for storage. Apples and Pears continue ripening in store, so pick them slightly under-ripe, so that they will be at their peak after a few months of storage. Our top five varieties for storage to store are; Ashmeads Kernel, Claygate Pearmain, Pinnova, Bra ...
Last year we purchased a new fifteen acre field, to extend our production area. With a deep black loamy soil, it is the perfect ground for growing fruit trees. As you can see, our trees have grown very well this summer, with excellent results! We are thrilled with the quality of the trees we have grown for sale this season. ...
Drinking the Fruits of Your Labour Drinking fruit juice is the easiest way for our bodies to digest all of the naturally occurring enzymes, vitamins and minerals that are present in fruit. In its liquid form the body doesn’t have to expend energy ‘working’ to extract the goodness, it takes it all up straight in to the blood ...
It is generally a pretty poor result for apple yields this year. With the unrelenting rain that occurred over late spring/summer, our insect friends were denied much opportunity to pollinate the flowers. But whilst it might not be a good year for fruit, it has been a good year for scab! Scab is an air-borne, fungal disease that ...
Credit for this very easy and quick recipe goes to our friend Sian. This will work well with apples or pears.The best apples to use are Belle de Boskoop [ used throughout France for apple tarte] but any firm aromatic variety will work well.[Suntan,Ribston Pippin,Cox,King of the Pippins etc.] Pears,if used want to be a touch u ...
One of the best places to see what can be achieved by training fruit are The Gardens of West Dean College near Chichester in Sussex www.westdean.org.uk.The gardens feature two restored kitchen gardens of the late Victorian period;the restoration is largely the work to Jim Buckland and Sarah Wain it has been beautifully done to t ...
In order to get our apple trees to grow straight they all require tying in to a cane. We grow many thousands of fruit trees each year so this can mean a lot of bending; but we think we have the answer..... All the trees this year should be nice and straight thanks to Katie and her bike. ...
[Fungal Canker is a common problem on apple and pears] especially in the wetter west of the U.K. It will infect young twigs in the Spring and cross infect to older wood, it can infect the trunk and rarely it will kill a tree. On the positive side older trees badly infected will often fruit well, as the tree is put under press ...
Adams Apples took a stand last weekend at the FIRST International craft cider Festival near Caerphilly. ...
