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Close to Spring
"Bloke Down The Pub" wrote in message
I've jsut been reading Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstalls cookbooks and am now quite interested in planting Bramleys given how highly he praises them as a cooking apple. He's also into cider apples and has piqued my interest in them too. I would dearly love to grow Bramleys here in Perth but apparently we do not get a cold enough winter for the trees to go dormant. I had a Bramley in my last garden that I managed to half "prune" with a particularly large bonfire. It wasn't as bad as I expected as the tree went from producing every 2 years to producing every year but on separate halves. If I left the apples on long enough they became about as round as a large saucer, floury and sweet enough to eat. picked smaller they were/are the best cooking apples around. That's interesting about the change in bienneal bearing. We do get enough chilling to grow good apples here, but I havent' yet got a Bramley. Possibly too late to do so this year, but I might put in a request for one or more with He Who Likes To Be Obeyed. |
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