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
Ramsons or Wild Garlic
Use as a salad leaf, or make into garlic pesto. Flowers edible too.
Use as a salad leaf, or make into garlic pesto. Flowers edible too.
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 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 |
