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Post by owdboggy on Oct 8, 2008 12:15:34 GMT 1
 There are two wheelbarrows full outside as well and the drawers are also full as are the freezers with puree and juice. Better than not enough though! |
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Post by bogmyrtle on Oct 8, 2008 12:34:35 GMT 1
Wow owdboggy, what a fantastic harvest.
I did see at small book at Malvern by Charlotte Popescu about apples - recipes, uses, etc!
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Post by madonplants on Oct 8, 2008 15:44:08 GMT 1
Good grief OB, that is a good harvest. How many trees do you have and what varieties?
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Post by owdboggy on Oct 8, 2008 16:42:38 GMT 1
The best book on all fruit is one published by Brogdale,full of lovely recipes.
We have Queen Cox, Bramley,Catshead,Greensleeves, Crown Gold, Ashmead Kernel. Court Pendu Plat,James Grieve,Discovery,Katja,Sunset and Rev.Wilkes.
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Post by debbiem on Oct 8, 2008 16:51:29 GMT 1
Fantastic harvest!  Apple wine?  Cider?  |
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Post by karenwl on Oct 8, 2008 18:25:45 GMT 1
Wow OB what a lovely crop apple pie anyone
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Post by emseypop on Oct 8, 2008 19:25:56 GMT 1
Wow! I'm glad you harvested them tho, even if you dont know what to do with them, some people just leave them to rot. How were the plums this year?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 8, 2008 19:27:27 GMT 1
Respect OB. Marvelous crop are they all 'good keepers'? |
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Post by owdboggy on Oct 8, 2008 20:38:18 GMT 1
Not a single Damson this year and only enough plums/greengages to eat there and then, none for jam or freezing.
No they are not all good keepers. Discovery,Katja and James Grieves need to be eaten immediately. They are the ones we puree, juice and freeze.
Cider is a problem in that to make a decent one you need cider apples which are full of tannin otherwise it is sickly sweet. Apple wine we have made in the past, but since I cannot drink alcohol any more what is the point?
What we or the family do not eat, will go to the birds in winter. Blackbirds and fieldfares adore them.
Round here almost every garden has at least one apple tree and they ALL seem to go to waste. Awful!
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Post by floweringcherry on Oct 8, 2008 22:20:26 GMT 1
Another wow from me too! fantastic. Well you know what they say "An apple a day keeps the Doctor away". (I would love to know who 'they' are) ;D
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Post by madonplants on Oct 8, 2008 22:59:54 GMT 1
Another wow from me too! fantastic. Well you know what they say "An apple a day keeps the Doctor away". ( I would love to know who 'they' are) ;D The doctors, FC!!  |
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Post by floweringcherry on Oct 8, 2008 23:02:34 GMT 1
Another wow from me too! fantastic. Well you know what they say "An apple a day keeps the Doctor away". ( I would love to know who 'they' are) ;D The doctors, FC!!  |
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