Portfolio 4 Fruit I Grow
APPLES (cooking)
cooking - fresh and frozen as a pulp 12 months supply. Variety
APPLES (dessert)
Apples – dessert – One small Cox’s Orange Pippen – gorgeous fruit from October to February. Variety
CHERRIES
Only a young tree yet and until I am organised the birds get most of them.
Variety
FIGS
There is only me that likes fresh figs but I probably consume 30 or so every Autumn. Variety
GOOSEBERRIES
Enough to freeze for a few pies in the winter. Variety
MELONS
Grown from seed every ear – 15-25 Cantaloupe melons with orange flesh and the most fantastic flavour imaginable – picked late summer. Variety Cantaloupe
PEARS
I espalier trained Conference pear as much fruit as we can eat late summer but it does not store well, so have to look into ways of using the fruit – bottling? Cider? Variety Conference
PLUMS
Victoria Plums – short season plenty to eat fresh – some for jam but I mainly make 15 jars of Plum and Tomato Chutney, using plums, tomatoes, apples and onions, garlic from the garden. This keeps us in amazing chutney for 12 months. Variety Victoria
RASPBERRIES
One 4 metre row supplies us with plenty of fresh raspberries but also enough to make approximately 6 jars of raspberry jam for the year. Variety
STRAWBERRIES
Plenty of fresh strawberries all summer with three varieties. (Pegasus-Cambridge Favourite, and late cropping ever bearing plants which take us up to November in a good year. As with most of the fruit I grow, preserving is the main need. I make 12 months supply of succulent strawberry jam every year (12-15 jars). Varieties (Pegasus-Cambridge Favourite, and late cropping ever bearing plants