The taste of home grown fruit..........

[Snadger]

.............bears no relatiionship to shop bought rubbish.

This post was brought on by me savouring a rather large home grown freshly picked Cox's Orrange Pippin.

The flavour far surpasses any coxes I have ever had.

Large,crunchy,juicy,tasty,what more could you want!

To anyone considering growing there own fruit.......just do it!!!

[Jeanied]

I agree Snadge - my Egremont Russets are hard to find in the shops and I just love them with a chunk of cheese! They are just about ready to pick at the end of this month.

[rustylady]

Not just apples though - same applies to raspberries and esp now my Victoria plums, sweet and juicy enough to eat straight off the tree!!

[kiwirach]

and i'd add blueberries to the list as well!!....OMG....when i tried one off the plant....tastes absolutely nothing like the shop brought ones, and soooooo much nicer.....i loved it and want more blueberry plants now!!

[Bren In Pots]

We've been picking our Worcester pearmains this week and they're delicious

[gojiberry]

Same goes for peaches, only had 3 but worth the 2 years wait to get them. Hope next year to have a few more. But the flavour of all home grown fruit is far better than any supermarket *rap.

Ian

[FB.]

I agree. Shop-bought fruit is a poor example of the true flavour of fruit. Shop-bought Cox's are so hard, bitter and tasteless that I almost have a phobia of eating any Cox's - even home-grown (not that I grow Cox's myself). By it's name - Cox's Orange Pippin - it suggests that the fruit should be orange. For many years, I haven't seen a shop-bought Cox's Orange in any colour other than green.

Shop-bought fruit is typically picked before it's properly ripe, in the race to be the first to market (to achieve best prices), to improve storage and reduce bruising. Unfortunately, unripe fruit often doesn't ripen to the same quality as fruit that is picked when ripe.
Shop-bought fruit is also sold by weight. The growers have huge incentives to plump up the fruit with heavy watering, which dilutes the taste.
The shop varieties are also those varieties most suited to commercial production - large, colourful, smooth, blemish-free, even-sized, perfectly-shaped. They are visually appealing to lure you into buying them.

Many of the older varieties may have lower yields and less attractive fruits, but the fruit often has far superior flavour.

[chrisguk]

Consider yourselves lucky, ive not had one apple drop yet this year, im still awaiting the fruits of my labour
Because of the relatively poor weather conditions up here, even my discovery havnt yet ripened.

[rana]

I had my first home grown cox of the year this weekend - a fantastic explosion of flavour in the mouth not comparable in any way to shop bought fruit. Also the Laxtons Fortune are sweet and so juicy it is almost necessary to have a towel handy when eating.