Derek Jenning’s mention in his interesting article on the evolution of thornless blackberries brought back to mind my early cultivation of Thornfree and later of Chester Thornless. It was a great relief to harvest the crops on Thornfree because those vicious spines on thorny varieties always left me seeking the packet of plasters. Later, having [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Chester Thornless Blackberry
Posted in Articles on August 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
How are your Apples?
Posted in Fruit Questions, News on August 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It has been an awful August and in general a bad year for most of us so far. There are no plums and few pears, yet the apple trees are cropping heavily, their skin colour has developed weeks early and some look ripe long before their time. Yet how are they going to taste? My [...]
Spanish Bramleys
Posted in News on August 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Bramley’s Seedling, our most celebrated culinary apple, is grown in the most surprising places – California and Japan – and now we learn of Bramleys cropping in Andalucia in southern Spain in the garden of Cobina-Jane Cumming.
We have no access to cooking apples here in the south of Spain as Spanish people [...]
The LochNess Monster seen in Bonn Market?
Posted in Fruit Questions on August 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Monster blackberries from the Rhine on sale in Bonn fruit market
On a recent trip to Germany I visited the Bonn food market and found a wonderful array of fruit on sale that even included locally grown gooseberries, red currants, blackberries and wild cranberries, as well as strawberries and blueberries. The blackberries were strikingly large and [...]
