Frosted fruit. -4c this morning Christmas Pippins still onthe tree #apples 🍎❄

Worth clicking past the pop-ups and invoking Google Translate to read about this Dutch apple sleuth #apples

The smell of cinnamon, cloves and heirloom apples buttering with a fire in the wood stove. Perfection. My skills were not made for this century.

🌳 It’s #NationalTreeWeek, marking the start of tree planting season! Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the theme is 'A Future Filled With Trees'. The Tree Council and their partners are running a series of free online tree talks and events 👉 lght.ly/nlbg1o7 #CommunityOrchards

Still a few scruffy apples around - Pitmaston Pineapple I think? - which at this time of year, and after a couple of hard frosts, taste more of pear than anything else.

If you're stuck for ideas as to how to do something a bit different with this year's massive fruit harvests, I have a growing collection - 125 and counting - of historical and modern orchard and soft fruit recipes, wherein you might find a bit of inspiration: orchardnotes.com/fruit-recipes/

If you're stuck for ideas as to how to do something a bit different with this year's massive fruit harvests, I have a growing collection - 125 and counting - of historical and modern orchard and soft fruit recipes, wherein you might find a bit of inspiration: orchardnotes.com/fruit-recipes/

Anyone for Apple Snow? Nellie Willey's 1887 recipe explains how to make best use of a bit of apple purée and a leftover egg white. Plus: custard! orchardnotes.com/2025/11/23/n...

Here's part one of my 2025 Fruit Harvest Highlights! A summer special, featuring stone fruits, soft fruits, early apples, melons, figs, and more. Loads more photos, thoughts and notes: orchardnotes.com/2025/11/22/f... Part two - autumn apples, pears and more - to follow...

Here's part one of my 2025 Fruit Harvest Highlights! A summer special, featuring stone fruits, soft fruits, early apples, melons, figs, and more. Loads more photos, thoughts and notes: orchardnotes.com/2025/11/22/f... Part two - autumn apples, pears and more - to follow...

Apple 'Court of Wick', in the walled garden at NT Quarry Bank earlier this week. Dozens of bright, orange-red apples still dot its leafless branches. They've really improved in flavour since we started picking them back in September. Patience is a virtue, if the tree isn't for dropping.

cox orange apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1905

The last Bayerische Weinbirne.

Grapes and pomegranate planted in the glasshouse today. We aim to grow the grapes up in to the eaves and then train along the rafters. This will add dappled shade to plants below while also giving a harvest.

It does make me laugh that the Kiwis are absolutely fine every single day. Then the first proper frost makes it say "nope" and every leaf comes off. Some plants have proper personalities...or maybe I've been around them for too long! 😄 Anyway, the kiwis are harvested, that is now all the fruit in!

How to you design your forest garden or orchard space? Jo Homan shares how she uses a low-tech option to get a real feel for how the finished design will work: www.theorchardproject.org.uk/blog/orchard... #CommununityOrchards #Permaculture

@tudorplaces.bsky.social issue 20 is out! As autumn fades into winter, come and walk with me into our orchard where we grow fruit known and appreciated in Tudor times.

Current reading: Why we thrive beneath a northern sky - genomic signals of selection in apple for adaptation to northern Sweden (2024) by Skytte et al. Much information on genetic testing of apples, and viability of cultivar growth in climate-affected high latitudes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Well-bletted Medlars and a smidge of sugar are all you need to turn boring old Vodka into an Apple Crumble-ish spirit. I would imagine you could add a couple of Cinnamon Sticks too if that’s the way you swing… #SundayDram #Medlars 🌱

A week today we'll be at Washingpool Farm Shop's Producers Fest 25, offering tastings of a selection of our small-batch Dorset ciders. Come along and say hello!

A Melange of Charnwood Cider Bottlings. Jack tastes through seven creations from Leicestershire's Charnwood Cider.

Anyone for mini baked apples with a flapjack stuffing? Quick and easy to make, a great way to use up smaller apples, and absolutely delicious with lashings of creamy custard 😋 orchardnotes.com/2025/11/16/h... #apples #recipe

One of the very best russet apples I've ever had! And I can't tell for sure what it should be called. Even the UK's National Fruit Collection seems muddled about that. adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/11/roya...

Anyone for mini baked apples with a flapjack stuffing? Quick and easy to make, a great way to use up smaller apples, and absolutely delicious with lashings of creamy custard 😋 orchardnotes.com/2025/11/16/h... #apples #recipe

#allotment today. Collected the last of these Howgate apples 🌱. all between 500g and 660g

Yesterday's 50mph+ wind gusts: "Right you lot, let's be having you on the ground!" Apple 'Delbard Jubile', this afternoon: "Nope."

The perry pears at Beau Vista orchard were jealous the attention the apples were getting so here’s an update. The pears are well set and growing. With their increasing weight the stalks are bending and the pears are hanging down now. This unknown pear I call Carterton. Great tannins #perry #pear

Hello, I'm on the hunt for the Golden Harvey apple. Any ideas? Full story linked below. #goldenharvey #goldenharveyapple #scionswap #heritageapples #heritagefruit #fruitsearch #variety #cultivar #apple #malusdomestica www.instagram.com/p/DRErWiOiMH...

🌱 Megathread on persimmon farming in this region, found here: bsky.app/profile/akha...

Two late season #apples adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/11/blon...

🎉 We have launched our Crowdfunder campaign, #OrchardsForAll The #AvivaCommunityFund is matching all donations up to £250. There are some brilliant rewards to snap up that won’t be around for long! www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/orchards-f... #AvivaCommunityFundUK #StrongerCommunities

Little applets forming. Photos of Tom Putt a week apart. Once fertilised the perianth and ovule begin to grow. #apple #cider #perianth #accessoryfruit

Quick photo gallery of autumn fruit tree foliage, anyone? A few highlights here - apple, peach, nectarine and blueberry -- and more pics on orchardnotes.com: orchardnotes.com/2025/11/08/g...

Medlars are now harvested. Let the bletting commence. After grading the tray on the left is unbletted and the fruit is still hard and has that lovely golden colour still. The tray on the right are bletted so they are a darker brown and squashy.

Quick photo gallery of autumn fruit tree foliage, anyone? A few highlights here - apple, peach, nectarine and blueberry -- and more pics on orchardnotes.com: orchardnotes.com/2025/11/08/g...

We've just polished up our course programme for next year! 🌳🍎 More info & tickets available on our website: fruitworks.org.uk/courses #fruitworkscoop #fruittrees #fruitgrowing #growingfruit #fruittreepruning #grafting #communityorchard

We've just published our Impact Report for the 24/25 financial year - promise it's full of lots of feel-good orchard information if you'd like a read! 👉 www.theorchardproject.org.uk/news/impact-...

A strain of Rome Beauty from our orchard called a Law Rome. The red skin stains the flesh when the nights get cold.

A great season for #apples is winding down: adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/11/nove...

I really wanted this video to put across the importance of small businesses and the loveliness of a family business. Also of course how important our home grown fruit is! #buybritish #applebrandy #organic #organicgrown

A few days in the life of some of our apples. These will come back to Le Manoir as apple brandy in 5 years time. A big shout out to Capreolus distillery who we have worked with for a few years now. I love seeing the outcome of so much work over the growing year.

Still picking apples in the garden - used the latest to make a toffee apple tart, using leftover (Yes, I know) sauce from a sticky toffee pudding. Waste not, want not. 10" pie dish, 8 generous slices www.netherton-foundry.co.uk/baking-tins/...

Some of these are starting to blet on the tree, which is as good a sign as any that it’s time to harvest the Medlars. 🌱 #Medlars

In the grey light of an overcast morning, a warm glow from late season apples, waiting to be harvested. This is Pope's Scarlet Costard. A rare but beautiful variety. Raised as a red sport of the old Medieval apple Costard by William Pope of Welford Park, Newbury early 19th C. 🍎🌱🍂

Perry’s success is in its uniqueness, not its ubiquity @teamdb.bsky.social

I'm trying to track down confidently identified trees of Monmouth Pippin (different than Monmouth Beauty) sometimes also called Red Cheek.

Blackburn cakes are similar to Eccles cakes but are filled with apples and spices rather than currants. You can find the recipe at piespuddingsandpottages.com/recipe-post/... #britishfood #foodhistory #baking #recipe #pastries #apples

In this week’s podcast episode I look at some of the less well known foods mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays namely sack, medlars and Banbury cheese. Joining me are Victoria González-Gordon from Gonzalez Byass wines, Jane Steward of Eastgate larder and Ned Palmer of cheese tasting Co

And away we go -- it's Halloween, but today's apple is a little more sci-fi in name than scarefest. It's time to review the theoretical heir to the Honeycrisp throne -- The Cosmic Crisp.

It has been a fabulous year for sloes, why not make your own sloe gin for Christmas, also perfect as a Christmas gift for alcoholic friends and family! It is incredibly easy, but get picking before the birds eat them! youtu.be/wZzOVXCZsi4