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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45671
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 05 2:09 pm Post subject:

Behemoth wrote:

last year only one out of about a dozen fruit stalls sold English apples at all.

I find that truly amazing, I really do.

bernie-woman

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7824
Location: shropshire

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 05 2:16 pm Post subject:
I have just come back from buying some chicken waitrose and noticed they only had english discovery Very proud of my one redsleeves and two laxtons superb growing in the garden There will have to be a ceremonial eating

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45671
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 05 2:19 pm Post subject:

bernie wrote:

There will have to be a ceremonial eating

Too right

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 05 2:25 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Behemoth wrote:

last year only one out of about a dozen fruit stalls sold English apples at all.

I find that truly amazing, I really do.

So did I - and they were mushy Cox's as well. The year before there were loads but none last year.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45671
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 05 2:25 pm Post subject:

Behemoth wrote:

So did I - and they were mushy Cox's as well. The year before there were loads but none last year.

Should we organise a picket?

crackapple

Joined: 19 Jun 2005
Posts: 204
Location: teeside

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 05 2:32 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Behemoth wrote:

So did I - and they were mushy Cox's as well. The year before there were loads but none last year.

Should we organise a picket?

too right! avoid all fruit stalls until they stock some english apples. my fave are russets, yum!!

Andy B

Joined: 12 Jan 2005
Posts: 3920
Location: Brum

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 05 3:09 pm Post subject:
In the back of Kitchen Garden mag they have listed apple days, we went to one at Berrington hall a couple of years ago and found it very interesting. https://www.commonground.org.uk/appleday.html

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 05 11:31 am Post subject:
Keep your eyes open for wildling apples, it's a common tree to find on any bit of ground that's been left alone for a while. I've got a preserving pan full of them bubbling away for jellly right now, and I'm pickng bits of core from between my teeth as I type.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 05 2:05 pm Post subject:
Well I managed to forage a couple of pounds of English Discovery at the greengrocer There are several crab apples I have my beady eye on at the moment, but I haven't found any wild eating apple trees yet.

Guest

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 05 3:26 pm Post subject:
One of the best English apples is an early one called Devonshire Quarrenden - just about ready now, and I'm about to pick in my garden. Lovely flavour, pink under the skin, but to eat fresh as it does not store.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 05 6:31 pm Post subject:

I have four very wild apple trees near a derelict farmhouse near me, they won't be ripe for another few weeks or so, and are quite sharp. But they are local and their free!

On the subject of greengrocers, mine had local plums, damsons and tomatoes on display yesterday, they mark all their local produce with a florescent orange card to differentiate from the foerign stuff, I had to go in, spend �15 quid and congratulate them.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 05 7:07 pm Post subject:
Local Discoveries @ 25p/lb make very nice, and rather bright pink, Apple juice...

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 05 8:48 am Post subject:
No English Apples in Leeds market but there were apples from NewZealand, South Africa, and Chile.

twoscoops

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1924
Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 05 9:21 am Post subject:
English discoveries on sale at Cambridge market on Saturday, but also plenty of imports.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45671
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 05 9:22 am Post subject:
Still only discoveries in the greengrocers.

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