Fruit of the Month and the Runners-up

[veggiechicken]

Name the fruits in fruit in your garden this month, tell us your favourite and which are the runners -up.

With photos if you can as we love photos here

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[FB.]

Laxton's Epicure.
We're always pleased with the fruit and the tree (M25 half-standard).
I could write an essay on why Epicure is a must-have variety for us.

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[Jungle Jane]

Fruit of the month is my little apple tree,its about 7 years old & I found the label the other day its a miniature coronet,good for pots but mines in the ground trained a bit on my shed blending into my grape vine which is a runner up of the month. Also runners up are all my tomato plants,these are some Black Icicle & Black Cherry & Cucino cucumber plants have all done really well outside.

[yummersetter]

We're getting to the height of the plum season. Gypsy, Satsuma and the greengage are finished, Opal, Seneca and Flavorking just gave a sample dozen or so. Victoria is flinging down the maggoty ones that are fed to the chickens. Mirabelles are just ripening, Anna Spath is turning greenish purple but still has a few weeks before picking.
The star of the plums this year is Kirke's Blue - a large crop on a twenty-five year old tree, it has a delicious plummy-gage-like flavour and a buttery smooth texture. We've picked several hundred and packed the fridges with all the ones we can't give away and now the last few dozen are beginning to split on the tree after the rainstorms. No wasps this year, thank goodness, but lots of Red Admiral butterflies feasting on them.

[yummersetter]

This month's apple is Reverend W Wilks, a huge white cooker dating from the beginning of last century. It wins because a hailstorm has spotted a lot of the other early apples.
I have five half standards and five bush trees, all grafted at the same time but oddly, all the tall trees flowered and fruited last year and this time its the biennial turn of the bush trees; not a flower bud to be seen on the others.
They are very striking and attractive and sell well down at the garden centre. They cook to a puree like Bramleys but are sweeter when ripe.
And today a one-pounder won Biggest Apple for me at our local Flower and Produce Show

[boatsman]

[[IMG]img20160828_120133[/IMG]My pomegranates are ripening nicely. They should be ready in about another five weeks.

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Last of the aforementioned Epicure apples harvested today.

The most coloured ones will be eaten in the next few days and the rest left in a window to ripen further.

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[yummersetter]

And the Reverends are off the trees now as well. Because no-one can eat 100 one lb. early apples before they rot, we've booked a stall at the local Farmers Market and we're going to try and persuade the local folk that there are other cookers besides Bramleys.