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2022 – A Bumper Apple Season
Who knows the saying ‘An apple a day, keeps the doctor away’? Probably just those of us of a certain age! I think it was all about getting enough fibre in your diet and an apple’s as good as anything. As Britain has always been in the wonderful position of being a great apple growing nation. We’ve always had plentiful apples, including varieties that store all through the winter. So, a great source of fibre and vitamins all year long. This year in particular has been great for apple growing, a proper bumper year, and we have been making the most of them! So, carrying on with the apple theme…
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Bramley Apple & Calvados Cake
Scrumping! We are very lucky to have a Bramley apple tree in our next-door neighbour’s garden, and even luckier to have a generous neighbour that tells us to help ourselves! This year the tree has produced more beautiful looking, delicious fruits than ever. We’ve already made a number of apple crumbles, which have been portioned up and put in the freezer. This week though we decided to make an apple cake. I have to give credit to the garden apprentice for the addition of the calvados, and wow, what a difference it makes! Calvados is a spirit along the lines of brandy, but rather than being made from grapes, it’s…
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The Fruit trees
Garden transformation Part 11 – The Fruit Trees Buying a property with a 160ft long south facing boundary, it was just asking for a wall to be built and fruit planted along it. Luckily I am a self-taught amateur bricky, married to an excellent labourer. We started building the ‘great wall’ as it’s become jokingly known, in May 2014 and it wasn’t completed until October 2016 – other priorities in our new garden, bad backs and appendicitis got in the way! Who wants to climb a ladder to pick an Apple? I love the idea of an orchard, it sounds so idyllic, but it’s only really an option if you have…
