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Growing and eating apples
Every autumn, Gardeners' World magazine Editor Adam Pasco and Deputy Editor Lucy Hall bring their surplus of home-grown apples into the office.
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Gardeners' World Web User
12/11/2010 at 16:46
I cannot wait to make my apple crumble this year using my aunt's Bramleys - fortunately for me my mum didn't get all of the crop this year so I will try that Good Food recipe out Kate if it comes recommended. My rabbit is still indulging in some late windfalls and for one fussy bunny, he sure likes the gnarly ones!!
Gardeners' World Web User
12/11/2010 at 16:59
It definitely comes recommended PeaPod, was fantastic. Aww I used to feed apples to my bunny when he was around. Sadly he's not around anymore...
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13/11/2010 at 19:14
My Bramley tree was very old when we moved in 46 years ago and each year when i see it absolutely covered in blossom, I dread this is its swan song but it never happens and the apples seem to get bigger and bigger. I'm still freezing and giving loads away this year. I have a very nice apple called "Charles Ross" which you can cook or eat - hard, clean flesh and a very good keeper which will stay on the tree till Xmas and can then be eaten straight off the tree - by which time it is a glorious Xmassy red all over.
Gardeners' World Web User
15/11/2010 at 15:36
patientgardener - I could... but I'd have to grow them on MM26/27 rootstock so the fruits and crop would be smaller and the plant would be more susceptible to pests and diseases. My garden only gets two hours sunshine a day too, which doesn't make for very tasty apples. And the garden is so small, if I plant a tree it's got to be more productive than that!
Gardeners' World Web User
17/11/2010 at 17:33
Why don't your readers think about planting cider apples - to make their own nectar. Kingston Black is the king of cider apples and also makes a seriously delicious apple juice, and Dabinett makes my favourite single variety cider.
Gardeners' World Web User
10/01/2011 at 10:19
HELP I AM CONFUSED AS TO WHAT RROT STOCK I NEED TO GROW A TREE IN A HALF BARREL
Gardeners' World Web User
29/08/2011 at 10:59
Help ! are all crab apples edible, can they all be made into jelly ? I have one small tree which is overloaded every year and it seems a waste to compost them all.
Gardeners' World Web User
28/11/2011 at 18:41
Could you not grow apples in large pots? I am hoping to grow apples next year once I have got the allotment going
willem
14/11/2012 at 10:15
Hello,
Could some one help me with getting rootstock mm116?

Greetings,
willem
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