Posted by Steve Harris on August 21, 2011, 11:05 am
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
Posted by Bob Hobden on August 21, 2011, 12:51 pm
"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
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from the W.of London. UK
Posted by <vicky on August 21, 2011, 4:33 pm
> 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.
Posted by Graham Harrison on August 21, 2011, 5:56 pm
> 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.
Posted by Baz on August 22, 2011, 8:34 am
applesteveha@letterboxes.org (Steve Harris) wrote in
>
> Steve Harris - Cheltenham - To get my real address, remove one fruit
>
appleha@letterboxes.org, with one fruit removed. (teehee)
Baz
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>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.