🍎🍏 L-R: Volunteers Bob Paterson, Mike Farmer and Nigel Earnshaw 🍏🍎
Our wonderful volunteers (pictured above) were hard at work earlier this month at one of our working parties helping to reduce the height of the deer guard stakes and wire to allow the Ashmead's Kernel to spread without damage.
Ashmead's Kernal is a very old cultivar, raised at Ashmead House by William Ashmead in the mid 1700's.
This particular one was planted at the Orchard in 2017 and is a connoisseur's apple with a distinctive sweet / sharp flavour. It is in bloom from mid May, ready to pick around mid October and will store until December / February.
We have had no fruit so far! Will 2022 be the year?
