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Post by trisha on Sept 8, 2020 10:48:10 GMT
Has anyone else noticed that apples are not the best this time of year? I'm looking forward to Cox and Russets coming in to our small veg shop.
Oranges, satsumas etc are delicious.
Trisha
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Post by Bellatrix on Sept 9, 2020 9:15:34 GMT
I like cox and russet too Trisha, never been a fan of granny smith or golden delicious, the flavours just aren't there.
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Post by jax2 on Sept 9, 2020 16:28:49 GMT
I like a Pink Lady .... they're usually pretty good although I would buy British apples if they were more widely available.
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Post by magggzzz on Sept 9, 2020 19:08:18 GMT
I’m not a big fan of apples but I used to love Macintosh reds. You could only get them at Christmas. I’m not sure about now.
I think when I was young I had a bad experience with cider ?? and it’s put me off anything apple related forever. I can’t actually remember anything but I think it’s possible.
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Post by Lancashire Lass on Sept 9, 2020 20:48:48 GMT
I’m a grape lover, particularly when they’ve been squashed. I rarely eat fresh fruit as I don’t like the texture but I do like the flavours. I love a smoothie for breakfast but am too lazy to prepare the fruit. Sorry Trisha, I’ve digressed from your question. We have a few apple trees in the garden and if you were close enough, I would pick you some and bring them round.
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Post by Peppersmum on Sept 26, 2020 8:31:04 GMT
I like Granny Smith’s. I also use those and breaburn (?) in baking rather than cooking apples.
And I love pears, hard tangy conference pears.
We have a cherry tree in the garden and every year it’s full of blossom. Then just as the cherries form, the bloody winds come and strip it bare. :-(
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Post by Bellatrix on Sept 26, 2020 17:25:47 GMT
We have a cherry tree in the garden and every year it’s full of blossom. Then just as the cherries form, the bloody winds come and strip it bare. :-(  omg, sods law PM
Squashed grapes LL, I see where you're going with that.
To be honest, I don't go out of my way to eat fruit, it's too sweet and cold, I love water melon in the summer though and black grapes (whole ones)
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Post by vwcamperfan on Sept 26, 2020 19:32:06 GMT
I love pears and this year I had pears on my tree for the first time. They are sweet desert pears but the wind knocked several off and I couldn’t rescue them in time to bottle them
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Post by linda on Sept 27, 2020 6:58:01 GMT
We have a cherry tree too and a Bramley apple tree. We also have two Blueberry bushes and rhubarb, We also grow our own herbs.  |
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Post by Beckyboo on Oct 5, 2020 13:44:45 GMT
We’ve only been shopping in one supermarket so far but I do miss the quality of farm shop produce. My favourite time of year, we’ve been lucky to collect Plums, Apples and Blackberries in the wild in and around our village (just one advantage of a more outdoors lifestyle) I’ve cooked it and frozen crumbles and cakes or frozen the fruit to make jams and chutney for Christmas gifts - this year has been a bumper one for free food!
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Post by linda on Dec 1, 2020 12:31:04 GMT
Even though I have that Renal gylcosuria condition there are some fruits I CAN eat due to the level of their sugar content etc. BUT, even though I bought some Raspberries last week we noticed that they don't taste of anything, ditto peaches.
Personally, I think our soil on this planet has become so depleted of nutrients things don't taste the same anymore. Do any of you agree with me/find the same with fruits that you buy?
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Post by Lancashire Lass on Dec 2, 2020 20:54:14 GMT
I’m not sure about that Linda. My OH grew cucumbers this year in our greenhouse and because they were plentiful, he kept giving them away. Everyone commented on how tasty they were. Same with his tomatoes. We add leaf mould to the soil each year to improve the soil but farmers add fertiliser to the fields to improve the quality of theirs. The stench of chicken muck in our village has us all running indoors. I think it’s more about wha5 they plant, the variety they use that affects tastes.
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Post by linda on Dec 2, 2020 21:32:18 GMT
Things grown at home etc are prob ok, I'm talking about commercially grown stuff in depleted soil. |
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Post by Lancashire Lass on Dec 3, 2020 8:45:03 GMT
I’m now thinking about my history lessons at school and learning about the farming system where on the third year they left a field to go fallow. We have farming friends Linda so I’m going to ask about this and I’ll report back.
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Post by linda on Dec 3, 2020 12:01:49 GMT
I’m now thinking about my history lessons at school and learning about the farming system where on the third year they left a field to go fallow. We have farming friends Linda so I’m going to ask about this and I’ll report back. Great, look forward to hearing from you Lancashire Lass |
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