Wordless Wednesday: The Last of the Red Apples
For Apple Day: Eat your way to the river
It's Apple Day, one of my favourite days of the year and what better way to celebrate than to tell you about my recent trip to Longney, where Gloucestershire Orchard Trust have 18 acres of apple orchard under their tender care. Here you'll find older orchards with some trees well over a century old, plus their newer plantings of around 94 Gloucestershire cultivars which have just acquired national plant collection status at Plant Heritage . The jury's out on the actual number as DNA testing has revealed at least one locally named variety is actually a more well known one: Ribston Pippin in this case. Don't worry, there are dozens there which definitely have their origins rooted firmly in Gloucestershire and their cultivation at Longney is vital to their continued presence and preservation. There were around 200 local varieties at one time and today it's around 100 still in existence. Steve Mason - the Trust's Curator - was our knowledgeable guide who invited ...
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ReplyDeleteTee hee - there's even less of them left now ;)
ReplyDeleteHow do you store your apples? We use an old fridge which seems to work well. Just finishing ours too.
ReplyDeleteThis year I've kept them on the tree for as long as possible. In other years I've wrapped each Apple in newspaper and stored them on shallow trays I bought for £1 each when our Littlewoods closed.
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