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Garden Diary – Grey days cheered up with Apple turnover
What a lot of grey days we had last week. It makes it so much harder to get up in the morning, but luckily the thought of breakfast usually does the trick! We still have plenty of cake made from garden produce, sliced and frozen to make it easy to get out. But this week a new treat, suggested to me by an acquaintance. An apple turnover. It’s been an amazing year for apples, as I’m sure quite a few of you know. Even if you don’t grow your own, everybody seems to be offering you a bag of apples. I’ve even seen a few boxes outside people’s houses, with…
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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…
