Early Apples!
 

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
be due to the lack of rain although others note that this variety produces
large fruit only when young. I may leave some of them for a couple of
weeks although pest attacks are starting.

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - To get my real address, remove one fruit

Early Apples!
 

"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
be due to the lack of rain although others note that this variety produces
large fruit only when young. I may leave some of them for a couple of
weeks although pest attacks are starting.


Everything is a bit strange this year, our maincrop potatoes are going over
a month early.

-- Regards
Bob Hobden
Posting to this Newsgroup
from the W.of London. UK

Early Apples!
 

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.

Early Apples!
 

"Steve Harris" wrote in message
...
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
be due to the lack of rain although others note that this variety produces
large fruit only when young. I may leave some of them for a couple of
weeks although pest attacks are starting.

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - To get my real address, remove one fruit

I was on the verge of asking a very similar question but it's not quite as
simple here (Somerset) as everything being early. For instance; I've been
picking Blackberries for several weeks and I normally expect a few early
ones but then mass ripening - this year it's all more spread out. My
apples have been dropping for several weeks; they normally start about now.
I just lifted my potatoes (partly because we're going away) and got a good
crop on a range bought at my local potato day.

Early Apples!