The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Fruit => Topic started by: Workhorse on April 03, 2013, 08:50:58 pm
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In the near-ish future i would like to plant a few apple trees, i would like some old English eating apples, but am not sure which ones! A friend has a tree with the best tasting apples but she doesnt know what variety it is!
So where do i start? what i would really like to do is have a tasting of different types before i decide which trees to buy!
All advice greatly appreciated! :tree:
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This might be a good starting point:
http://www.orchardnetwork.org.uk/content/fruit-varieties (http://www.orchardnetwork.org.uk/content/fruit-varieties)
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Get a catalogue from one of the specialist sellers, it'll contain lots of info about the varieties. We bought the trees for our orchard from Adam's Apples (http://www.talatonplants.co.uk/) and they were really helpful.
Also ask around locally about what grows well where you are, and any local varieties - we took advice from a local 'expert' about which varieties would suit us best - we're on the east coast of Scotland and assumed that most Scottish varieties would be suitable, but the advice was that the eastern location was a big factor, so varieties that thrived or developed in East Anglia were more suitable than those from the west of Scotland.
HTH. :)
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Try this for ideas - maybe you seen it already:www.orangepippin.comFor apple enthusiasts - tasting notes, apple identification, apple flavors, genealogy and relationships of hundreds of apple varieties.
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If you've got a big orchard around, they often have an apple day in autumn where you can go along and taste their apples. I know Brogdale (the national fruit tree collection) has a big one - and you can take along your own unidentified apples and they'll help identify them too. Not sure where you are though - they're in Kent so it could be a long way to travel.
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see if there is an orchard group near you, always a good source of information
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Thank you all for your help! :)