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Ready for Harvesting...

Nettles and Rhubarb

Nettles all over, Rhubarb buried at the west end of the  big red current bush, below the mulberry tree. NE map corner

map of where fruit is

Crops in the Forest Garden ~ Help yourself to harvests

Guide to Harvesting

Harvest what you need and leave some for others, and the birds!
Test food is ready (for apples give them a quarter turn; if they come off, they are ripe).
See Map page for where to find the plants.

Harvest list

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Ramsons or Wild Garlic


Use as a salad leaf, or make into garlic pesto. Flowers edible too.

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Fruit is all there for eating. Take some and leave some for others. 
If they come off with a gentle quarter turn, they are ready. Some varieties get better with storing for a while.

Also, if anyone wants to grow their own apples, you are very welcome to come in the winter when we're pruning and take a pruning of the variety you want. Then you graft onto the rootstock you want (about £2 each from specialist nurseries) and that's your tree.

More on rootstocks here
Apple Varieties

Variety - description - desert or cooking apple - Rootstock M number
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Top row, west corner to east

​Bramley -cooker 
Yorkshire beauty
Bloody ploughman -very red desert
Pixie -desert
Tydemans late orange -desert
Ribston pippin -desert
Fillingham pippin -desert
Tydemans early Worcester -desert
Kidds orange red -desert
Ingrid Marie - desert
Sunset - desert - M26
Cockpit - M106
Yorkshire aromatic -yellow cooker - M106
Flower of the town  -ridged desert - M26
Laxtons early crimsom - M26
Wisley crab - deep red cooker - M106
Lord lambourne- desert - M26
Fiesta- desert - M26
​Worcester pearmain- desert - M26


​Lower row, east to west:
Spartan- dark red  - desert - M26
Cockpit improved -M106
Discovery -desert - M26
Proctors seedling - M26
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