garden closed for wall repairs

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The garden is closed indefinitely as there are no funds available for necessary wall repairs

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apple varieties

"Rival"

A Berkshire variety, but introduced to Cheshire in 1900.  A dual purpose, refreshing, crunchy apple with good flavour.  Pick end of Sept to Oct, stor until December.  Pollination Group 3.

"St. Edmund's Russet" (Suffolk, 1875)
Dessert apple, a sweet juicy delicious russet.  Pick mid Sept, pollination group 2.

"Lord Derby" (Cheshire, 1862)
A large green cooking apple.  Pick October, store until December.  Pollination group 4.

"Millicent Barnes" (Chester, 1903)
Dual purpose, pick late Sept, store until Oct/Nov.  Pollination Group 2/3.

"Arthur W Barnes" (Chester, 1902)
Cooker, pick mid Sept, store until October.  Very attractive blossom.  Pollination group 2/3.

"Keswick Codlin" (Ulverston, 1793)
Dual purpose, a juicy eating apple that also cooks to a creamy puree.  Pick late August, store until October. Pollination Group 2.

"Withington Welter" (Cheshire, 1883).
 Dual purpose, tasty and cooks to a fluff.

"Ashmead's Kernel" (Gloucestershire, 1700).
 Dessert apple, sweet, juicy, highly aromatic.  Pick mid Oct store until Feb.  Pollination group 4.

"Minshull Crab" (Minshull, Cheshire, 1777)
Cooker, keeps shape, very sharp.  Pick mid Oct, store Nov-March.  Pollination group 2.

"James Grieve" (Scotland, before 1893)
Dual purpose.  Crisp, keeps shape when cooked, juicy, delicate flavour.  Harvest Sept/Oct.  Pollination group 3.

"Cox' Orange Pippin" (Buckinghamshire, 1830)
Juicy eating apple.  Harvest mid Oct.  Pollination group 3.

"Braeburn" (New Zealand, 1952)
Dual purpose.  Combines sweet and tart flavour, holds shape when cooked.  Pollination group 4. 

"Blenheim Orange" (Oxfordshire, 1740)
Cooker, cooks to a puree, with a nutty flavour.  Pollination group 4. 

   

  

The garden supervisor

Apple espaliers planted



Random Apples

production line at the Random Apple Company

Preparing the ground for the new Orchard

Summer Garden

The garden is looking really good!

Looking over the wall, from the scaffolding to the old boiler house

The old boiler house roof

the gate

the gate to a new gardening year

 

Juice

Apples harvested Saturday 22 October

Washed, pulped, juiced & pasteurised  at the Random Apple Co. Sunday 23 October

Result: 31 three-quarter litre bottles of apple juice

The fruit theme will continue in November as we plant 10 orchard trees

Plum Production Line

What to do with a small share of about 20kg of Victoria plums...

Jeff and Tom competed with the wasps for this evenings harvest

August Garden and Fruits of the Garden

The garden looking good

A bumper year for fruits

L - blackcurrant jelly with strawberries

Middle - redcurrant jelly

R - whitecurrant 'jamelly'  (put through a sieve rather than a jelly bag to remove pips) 

topped with redcurrant jelly

High Summer in the Garden

Fruit cage by the east wall

A heavy crop of red and white currants

Seed heads of bolted leeks left for pollinators

Faded poppies

Summer Fruits

A bumper year for fruit

Loganberries looking good

Poppy

Our first red poppy of the year came into flower

100 years and 1 day after the start of the Battle of the Somme

Taming the Wilderness

In the garden during the past few days have been Bridget, Catherine, Fiona, Jeff, Sue and Tom

What for the wilderness beyond the veg beds?

A walk through fruit trees, a pond....

A yellow iris was hidden amongst the nettles and rosebay willow herb

The Garden ...... and Beyond

In the garden today were Sheila, Tom and Fiona

Over half the garden is now under cultivation.....

The remainder is being cleared and will be landscaped

as a leisure space for the enjoyment of the Salesians and their visitors

   

Owls!

(this is the 100th blog post)

Two tawny owls were seen in the garden by Sue and Tom today - too quick for the camera

May Heatwave

A hot day in the garden

May Day Bank Holiday Weekend

Spending a wintry morning between the garden and the shelter of
the garden shed were Bridget, Jeff and Tom