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Goxhill

Joined: 27 Mar 2005
Posts: 245
Location: Lincolnshire

Posted: Thu Sep 08, 05 8:23 pm Post subject: How to get quince by mail order
Help! Does anyone know how I could obtain some quince by mail order? I'd like to try some before I decide whether we can fit in a tree. I'm in Lincolnshire & don't have transport [well, not for most of the week]

hardworkinghippy

Joined: 01 Jan 2005
Posts: 1110
Location: Bourrou South West France

Posted: Thu Sep 08, 05 9:37 pm Post subject:
Hi Goxhill, Naomi runs a smallholders club in Lincolnshire. She might know someone not far from you who has a tree full of quinces... https://www.lsssc.org.uk/ HWH

Res

Joined: 07 Apr 2005
Posts: 1172
Location: Allotment Shed, Harlow

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 1:49 pm Post subject: Re: How to get quince by mail order

Goxhill wrote:

Help! Does anyone know how I could obtain some quince by mail order? I'd like to try some before I decide whether we can fit in a tree. I'm in Lincolnshire & don't have transport [well, not for most of the week]

Did you get some?

I have janapese quince in the back garden if you would like one?

Or TWO?

Grows like a flipping weed!

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 2:00 pm Post subject:
Tiptree's sell fruit jams/jellies by mail order including quince; I think you have to buy a case but you can mix them. Not the fruit, but at least you would get an idea of the flavour.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45670
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 2:05 pm Post subject:

Tiptree's quince jelly tastes of almost nothing, you won't get even a hint of the fragrance that you'll get from your own.

I like quince syrup and I recently tasted an excellent medlar jam but there are many other trees I'd go for in prefence to either unless I had loads of room.

By the way I hope that doesn't come across as a diss of Tiptree, they're absolutely fantabulous, I never buy any other jam, just got this week:

Greengage
Damson
Mulberry
and 4 jars of Christmas Conserve (I use it as the base for my mince)

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45670
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 2:08 pm Post subject:
If you go to any of the upcoming apple festivals you'll probably find tucked away somewhere a few quince

Goxhill

Joined: 27 Mar 2005
Posts: 245
Location: Lincolnshire

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 8:44 pm Post subject:
Thanks guys. I've got a small japanese quince & put the few fruit in a 'found & grown' jam - hedgerow-type with some garden bits chucked in. Don't hold out much hope of getting to an apple festival Weekends seem far too short - they should have at least 3 days by law!! Thanks anyway. Sorry hardworkinghippy - somehow I completely missed your post. I'll contact Naomi cos it's worth a try!

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 18415

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 05 12:31 pm Post subject:
quinces don't take up too much room - think they can be trained up walls. the small japanese ones are medium garden shrub size. i picked 3lb at one go off a friend's quince treelet earlier this autumn (lots more fruit still to ripen on it), and am making an experimental gallon of wine, in the hope catching the fragrance plus the alcohol. and quince jelly is superb.

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