Orchard Floor management

Looking after fruit trees is one thing, but thought also needs to be given to the space between…

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Sowing the orchard meadow

My birthday today, and as a present I received 1kg of wildflower seed. In anticipation, I had cut…

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It's all about the apples

Gallery

Here is just a selection of apple varieties in the orchard (pictures taken over the last couple of…

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2016 - first ciders

Three early ciders are in the fermenters – one of about equal quantities of Major, Tremletts Bitter…

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Bountiful harvest in 2016

2016 has been a bumper year for apples! Practically every fruit grower in Cumbria has had a greater…

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