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Well it turns out the apple tree in my new garden is an eater. :-)

It also looks like to be an early version of whatever it is, but it
seems very very early to start picking apples. They're already nice and
sweet and about half of them have a nice shade of red, they're also
starting to fall in greater numbers and will twist off easily.

So - should I leave them or start munching? Well, cutting out the maggot
trails first anyway...


some varieties like Beauty of Bath normally ripen in August but the early
apples are not normally good keepers and are best eaten straight from the
tree, gluts of windfalls can be made into juice
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea