ENTERTAINMENT ON THE FARM


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LIFE ON THE FARM AN APPLE A DAY….


If you cast your mind back a few months, you might remember we had quite a cold and late spring. In fact May was very cold at times and the frosts we had then have affected the apple crop we should be picking now. In short, we don’t have as many apples as we should have.


Our trees are quite fickle, the planting records go back almost 100 years and whilst not all of our trees are that old, the older trees do tend to be quite bi-annual; that is they crop every other year. Last year’s crop was just below average, so I was expecting a larger one this year, unfortunately the weather has prevented that and perhaps the trees are saving themselves for next year!


The majority of our apples go for cider, and we do make a bit of our own, along with some apple juice from our eating apple trees. Apple juice from our Worcester trees is quite sweet and


very drinkable. From our Bramley trees it is sharper and also very nice to drink. The antioxidants in the apples are said to be good for our health and perhaps that is why the saying ‘an apple a day, keeps the doctor away’ came into being.


I write in mid-October and the weather is being exceptionally kind. There are showers promised for the end of the month, but I should think that most of the potatoes will have been lifted and drilling finished by then. Anyone involved in farming or gardening will tell you timeliness is key, and you really can’t go wrong when the weather is with you!


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