Steve Harris wrote:
First good apple of the season. The book says 'Ashmead's Kernal' is ready
for harvest in mid-October. My experience has been late-September but this
year, here we are not quite in the last week of August! They're not quite
as sweet and sharp as I remember and they're about half the size. This may

About the same as the allotment tree, which had a branch crash down last
weekend, it was so laden. The fruit are lovely, but small.