Tag Archives: crab apples

Don’t get crabby with me

Posted on January 12, 2026 by james

These are from a tree at the end of our drive. In the twenty years we’ve lived here I’ve never managed to pick them. They seem to be ripe one day and fall off the tree the next. But in … Continue reading →

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Apples, apples, everywhere

Posted on November 11, 2021 by james

Today I finally got around to collecting apples for juicing. The apples haven’t been great this year, as I may have already said. We’ve only really had a decent crop on the ones that flowered late, which is mainly cider … Continue reading →

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Mists and mellow fruitfulness

Posted on November 9, 2019 by james

Over the last few weeks I’ve been out harvesting the bounty of the local hedgerows, in particular the blackberries which grow almost everywhere around us. I’ve picked pounds and pounds (or even kilos and kilos if you want to be … Continue reading →

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