Apple

...I would advise that an apple tree or two is where you start. The beauty of apple trees nowadays is that, where once you may have only been able to grow one large tree in your garden, due to the fact that dwarfing rootstocks are now more widely available, you will now find that you can accomodate several different smaller trees in your garden. You can also train your apple trees to grow in almost any shape. If you are growing against a fence or wall, ...
...When you are planting your apple trees, you need to ensure that you provide enough space for the tree to develop and reach its full size. You should be careful to select the most suitable size of tree for your garden. This is largely determined by the rootstock which it is grown on. In most cases, you will require more than one apple tree otherwise they will not pollinate. SITE If you want consistently heavy and quality crops, then I recommend ...

SnowiestElf 16.01.2006 · Read full review
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...fragrance. Just bite into an apple fresh from the tree, and compare it with a supermarket-grown one, and you'll taste and smell the difference. I'm in favour of keeping apples in cold storage so that we can eat them when they are not in season, but to store them for longer than that is, in my opinion, gross abuse. The solution: grow your own! You may think that apple growing is a slow complicated business that requires a lot of time and knowledge, ...
...WHEN AND WHERE TO BUY APPLE TREES The best time to buy and plant young trees is between November and March. You can buy them from specialist tree nurseries, which have the biggest selection. You can buy them from your local garden centre, where they are likely to be expensive. You can buy them on Ebay, which works out cheaply if you buy several items from one seller, which I have done with good results. You can buy them online from specialist nurseries, ...

queen_rain 12.12.2004 (08.01.2005) · Read full review
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Apple The apple is a fruit which we are all familiar with, from the apple in the packed lunch taken to school at an early age to the apple pie granny used to make, but to grow and nurture an apple takes some doing, I have got two trees in my garden and each year I get a different yield. This has lots of factors determine how many apples I get from my trees, from the wind to the wasps everything effects the crop. So, if your interested on how to ...
...In my opinion the best apple to try and grow first is the Cox’s orange pippin it seems suitable for most area’s and soils, the spread of an apple tree will vary on the variety chosen and this can be from 8 to 10 ft high by 8 to 10 feet wide, to 15 to 20 ft wide and 6 ft high. Always remember when buying apple trees that they do need lots of room to grow and mature and what might seem nice and compact the first two or three years will mature into ...

Sunnysmiles 23.05.2007 · Read full review
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There has been an Apple Tree at the bottom of my Parent's Garden for as long as I can remember. The only problem is no matter how lovely it may look when it is covered in Pink Blossom in the Springtime, or when it is laden with huge, juicy looking Apples the truth is, the Fruit that it produces is very bitter and sour and sadly the Apples from this Tree have only ever been suitable for Cooking with. When I recently moved House and had a Garden once ...
...have an Apple Tree of my very own, only this one would bear the most wonderful Fruit. The trouble was I didn't actually know a great deal about Apple Trees, but after a bit of research I finally made my choice. I settled on a variety of Apple called "Katy" which will form the bulk of this review. I would however also like to give a little bit of general information which may also be useful. DIFFERENT TYPES OF APPLES Apple Trees are the most widely ...

micksheff 13.04.2006 · Read full review
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Did Eve give Adam an apple in paradise? The bible doesn't mention one, only the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. In the 5th century AD people began to become interested in the kind of fruit she gave him, considering the flora and geographical conditions of Asia Minor where the Garden of Eden was supposed to be they thought it could have been a fig, a grape or a citron, monks in Northern Italy, however, were convinced that the fruit ...
...warm there. Botanists assume that apple trees originated in the area between the Caspian and the Black Sea, they grow best in temperate countries with a cool climate and plenty of rain during the winter. Central Europe and North America are the main regions for the production of apples, but they're now also grown in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and South America - in the months when we've got winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Internationally, ...

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Apple tree or Malus is a hugely diverse subject, there are hundreds of varieties of apple, including the crab and various ornamental varieties with colourful leaves and stunning blossom. Probably, the Apples which come to most peoples minds are of the eating and cooking variety, so that is what I shall write about here. +++++++++++++++++++++ THE MECHANICS OF IT ALL +++++++++++++++++++++ Having narrowed the field down from many hundreds to just ...
...your search for the perfect Apple tree is that most are not self fertile. Meaning that they will need other apples within the vicinity which flower at the same time in order for cross pollination and fruiting to take place. Incestuous trees they are not! +++++++++++++++ DETECTIVE WORK +++++++++++++++ The best, and most fun, advice I can give on this is to go on an Apple tree hunt around your immeadiate neighbourhood to see if their are any handy ...

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...Red apples Green apples. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Let me tell you what inspired me to write this pop on Apples. I was watching out of my kitchen window and I saw a beautiful blackbird having a feast on the apple I had thrown onto the lawn. It had gone a bit old and wrinkled in the fruit bowl past its best no one wanted to eat it so I threw it onto the lawn, as I know that the birds will eat it as a winter feast. I often keep my old ...
...soft. What sort of apple do you prefer? I prefer a green crispy one, granny smiths, though my husband likes his red and firm. There are many varieties of apple some are Discovery, Blenhiem orange, Russet, Pippins, Cox, Worcester permain. Cookers Bramley’s, Grenadier, Bountiful, Edward v11.There are also crab apples lots of apples. I have 4 small trees in my garden I planted them a few years ago A couple of Bramley’s and a couple of Cox two are ...

mumsymary 02.04.2003 · Read full review
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...ago I was given two apple trees for my garden, I was very happy about this because if you visit your local garden centre to buy one you'll probably have to pay anything from 10 pounds to 15 pounds, for a tree which may only produce a few apples on it's first year. The types of trees I have are Worcester Pearmain and Cox's, these are well known varieties which produce a good crop. The Cox's should be planted with other apple trees as they are not ...
...During the summer months the apple trees blossom, which is a really nice sight in my garden and attracts the bees. The blossom goes and you can see the little apples growing on the tree. I feed the soil around the base of the trees with a nitrogen fertilizer to get a good crop. If you buy a tree from a garden centre, make sure you position it in a sunny place in your garden, make sure the hole the tree is going in is deep enough to stand the roots ...

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An apple a day keeps the doctor away- or so the old saying goes! Apples originated in the Middle East more than 4000 years ago and fruit and vines have been grown in the UK since the Roman occupation, with specially cultivated apple varieties spreading across Europe to France, arriving in England at around the time of the Norman conquest in 1066. (So what about Adam and Eve and the 'forbidden fruit'- often referred to as an apple - perhaps it wasn't ...
...and gardens. ~~~~~The Apple Market~~~~~ The UK apple market is now worth over £320M ¬ but only 30-35% of the eating apples sold in the UK are home-grown. Supermarkets sell 70% of all apples in the UK. Many supermarkets sell about eight varieties, ¬ double the range they carried five years ago. The UK is the only country that grows apples especially for cooking. More than 140,000 tonnes (£78M) of Bramley apples are sold annually and 95% of these ...

suelr13 22.01.2008 · Read full review
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I found your site after searching for info on my Bramley apple tree which is heaving with young fruit. I was looking for anything on fruit thinning as i had heard of this but new little about it. What a joy,everything i wanted to know and more on apple tree welfare if i may call it that. great stuff. ...

oldgazza 03.07.2007
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