Posted in Fruit Questions on September 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I have just purchased a VIGO Press and I am having great fun pressing loads of apples into apple juice. Why does my apple juice look like muddy water. The juice is fantastic to taste. I want it looking like juice out of a carton. Is this possible ?
Alun Powell
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
The Friends of the National Fruit Collections at Brogdale are distributing a poster: see below. Visitors to this website may wish to download this for passing on to friends and family or for display locally: eg in a house or car window or by asking local shops, farmers markets, garden centres, etc whether [...]
Posted in Fruit Questions on September 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I see there is a pluot (3/4 plum 1/4 apricot) advertised in Thompson & Morgan’s Fruit Collection catalogue but with very little information about hardiness, flowering period or whether it is self-fertile. I have looked at the website of the company in California that distributes them in the US but it is difficult to translate [...]
Posted in Fruit Questions on September 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I wonder if anyone can identify what is wrong with my pears. The trunk and leaves appear normal and healthy but the fruit is small hard and split severely. I have asked local growers but no-one has seen anything like it before and suggested you might be able to help me. This is the second [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections, News on September 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Faversham News reported yesterday, Thursday 20 September, that the tax bill of £36,782 against Brogdale Orchards Ltd, a subsidiary of the Brogdale Horticultural Trust, which resulted in a Country Court Judgement for failure to pay, had now been paid. The reason that Brogdale Orchards received a County Court Judgement was because of ‘staff shortage’ [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections, News on September 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
On 29 August 2007 HM Revenue & Customs obtained a County Court Judgement for £36,762 against Brogdale Horticultural Trust’s subsidiary, Brogdale Orchards Limited. At the time of writing the judgement is unsatisfied.
If Brogdale had paid the amount outstanding, it could obviously have avoided a court hearing and the judgement. Since it did not, one has [...]
Posted in Fruit Questions on September 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As someone always looking for free fruit, I have picked my share of blackberries. I have heard it said so many times that the cultivated blackberry does not taste as good, but is this really true? In the wild to self seed or layer, blackberries find an ideal situation as regards sun, shade and moisture, [...]
Posted in Fruit Questions on September 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was told that the French do not have this split between cookers and eaters but see the apple as eaters and know varieties that have a particular use - King of the Pippins for Tart Tatin.
So why do we categorise them (Victorian marketing?) and what character makes a cooker a cooking apple? My [...]
Posted in Fruit Questions on September 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Apple variety Suffolk Pink is to be stocked by Waitrose this September according to p.5 of their products booklet for the month. Has anyone any detailed knowledge of its history?
Jeff Bull
Posted in Fruit Questions on September 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I appear to have plum rust on one of my plum trees (yellow mottling on upper sides of leaves, brown powder on the undersides) with about 90% of the leaves on the tree being affected. What, if anything, should I do about this? Collins Guide to the Pests, Diseases and Disorders of Garden Plants [...]
