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There are few tastes that capture late summer quite like a ripe blackberry. For many of us, blackberries belong to hedgerows: fingers stained purple after an afternoon’s picking,…
A well-pruned apple or pear tree is a pleasing sight: an open framework of branches, plenty of healthy fruiting wood and, with luck, a generous crop to look…
There’s something rather lovely about a pear tree in autumn. After spending spring covered in blossom and summer quietly getting on with the business of growing fruit, it…
There comes a point in autumn when pudding stops feeling optional. The evenings draw in, jumpers migrate back to the front of the wardrobe and the idea of…
Pears have a habit of testing our powers of observation. For what feels like an age, they sit in the fruit bowl resolutely firm. You check them on…
There is a particular sort of optimism involved in acquiring too many apples. Perhaps the tree in the garden has had an unusually enthusiastic year. Perhaps you went…
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” It’s one of those sayings most of us have known for so long that we rarely stop to question it….
There is a particular sound to an orchard at harvest time. The soft rustle of leaves overhead. The occasional thud of an apple falling into the grass. A…
There are few sights in the kitchen garden quite as cheering as the first rhubarb of the year. After spending winter apparently asleep beneath the soil, the crowns…
Fruit tree thinning is a time-honoured technique that gardeners have relied on to nurture healthier and more productive trees. At its core, it involves the careful removal of…