Thursday 3 December 2009


This is a picture of the Charles Ross apple, with the tree still laden with its biggest-ever crop in mid-November. Behind it is the old hut, which is now cleared away.  This apple must have been planted by Vic Smith around 50 years ago.  We get good harvests every few years.  The flesh texture is turnippy but the flavour is good - citrussy - and sweet.  Birds have been pecking the fruits and seem to play a game of "see how many fruits we can put a tiny peck into".  So we picked them all and use them chipped to go with our meusli and also to make fresh juice.  Fortunately the squirrels have left them alone this year otherwise they would have gone ages ago.
This shows the best side of the old hut, given  that most of the roof, front and other long side had gone the way of all corrugated. The ivy was holding up the remainder.

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