What are you eating from your fruit store?

[Lardman]

Ive done a quick audit today on what's left in the store. Im down to just apples and even running low on those.

Bramley on m25 - exceptionally waxy, no problems.
Bramley on m26 - no problems despite visible bitter pit far less wax.
Jonagold - mealy texture but ok for cooking not pleasant eating - paraffin taste to skin.
Christmas Pippin - tastes identical to pear in canned fruit cocktail, on the turn
Tupstones - not good , texture crisp but generally unpleasant and crab like to eat.
Winston - holding well, still good as an eating apple.
Kidds orange red - high water loss, very sweet with nutty texture.

I have at best a couple of lunches and a pie or 2 left, it feels a long way until August hows everyone else fairing ?

[Chestnut]

we are down to preserved stuff. About half a dozen huge kilner jars of crumble/pie filling, some apple, some blackberry.

[burnie]

I have 3 apple trees, the Howgate Wonder are long eaten, so too the James Grieve, just a few Red Delicious to go, will be buying apples in a few weeks.

[SarrissUK]

I have a few goosegogs, quite a few blackberries and raspberries left in the freezer. I was never big on fruit bushes as my garden is too small really, and the dog savaged my raspberries this year, so no harvest. Nothing else left.

[Bren In Pots]

My apple trees are Worcester Pearmain sadly they don't keep so instead I've got bags of apple slices in my freezer that get used for pies and oatmeal toppings.
Other fruits in my freezer are rhubarb, blackberries and raspberries the strawberries have all been eaten.

[Mr Bones]

Just a bag each of raspberries and blackberries in the freezer

[4Shoes]

2kg Dehydrated Apple, 200g Dried Strawberry - Serials and porridge
200g Strawberry Straps - snacks

3kg frozen Apples and 2kg of Frozen Strawberries - Crumbles etc

[sparrow100]

No apples or pears, but I have 3-4 litres of raspberries and a couple of litres of goosegogs in the freezer for adding to porridge or scoffing on waffles. I wish I had dehydrated more apples in summer.

I've got 3 litres of rosehips in the freezer too, for the horse who adores them.

Your review is really interesting - except that my only apple tree is a bloomin' Christmas Pippin. I guess I should enjoy them rather than store...

[It never rains..it pours]

Only froze tomatoes and blackcurrants this year. Tomatoes are a disapointment, odd taste which read is common so less tomato plants this year. However the blackcurrants are a joy and quite sweet compared to picking time so have ordered another blackcurrant - bare root big ben

[littlemoney]

I have plently of Monarch apples in my shed, a few Laxton Superb but rather soft now, probably due for the great compost in the sky. In the freezer raspberries, blackcurrents, blackberries and a few logan berries. I also have a few greengages in the freezer which were given to me.

[Vince G]

Just a large bag of forced rhubarb, and a small bag of each of tayberries and blackcurrants. About 4 or 5 crumbles worth.

[Mark_Riga]

A few bramley looking very yellow now but still OK, soft fruit in freezer (plums, raspberries, red and black currants)and 28l apple juice.

[Hereford fruit grower]

Unfortunately I had a mouse infestation. Those who did building work will be reprimanded, if it makes any difference.

Before that happened, I would say that of the varieties I grow, all these four were looking fine:

Pears -
Josephine de Malines
Apples -
Crispin
Sturmer
Golden Russet.

I'm planting more very late pears and apples as soon as I can get trees or budwood. However, of the 'normal' varieties, very few keep after Christmas, even in a cold place, especially with the warming climate. They might keep in a fridge but that's an extra feature that used not to be needed to keep apples up to March/April.

[mrbadexample]

Tomatoes are a disapointment, odd taste which read is common so less tomato plants this year.

I roast mine before freezing. Cut them in half & fill a roasting tin with them. Stuff slices of garlic inside them (protects it from burning), add chillies, rosemary, whatever you like. Drizzle with olive oil. Roast until the tomatoes start to char at the edges. Blitz to a smooth sauce & freeze in batches. It makes a great starting point for spag bol, chilli, pasta sauce, pizza topping etc. I can't make enough.

[Lardman]

Down to just 5 of the M25 bramleys. They're going over fast.
Winston is still a good eater but only 7 left.
2 dozen or so jonagold - mainly as both the texture and flavour is now terrible but they're keeping.
Seed tray of small M26 bramleys picked green. Holding well.
Cat litter tray of assorted left overs which I pick over on a daily basis now.

There's still 15 C500 tubs of bramley puree in the freezers but I'll fall well short of next season.

I'm cross with myself for not ordering that Worcester Black pear when I said I would and I really need to look at more long hanging and long keeping apples.