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I have moved to Cumbria and I would like to grow some fruit. I was able to grow grapes outdoors in Hertfordshire but I think they won't be a goer up here. Could anyone recommend a type of dessert apple or pear that would fruit in the North West? A type of cherry? Or is that wishful thinking? These are to be grown outdoors, I don't have a greenhouse/polytunnel yet.
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Have a look at this site for apples (I wonder if there might be one for pears etc?)
Apple varieties suitable for Cumbria and the north west"Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple
Location....Normandy FranceComment
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Thankyou, and also for the link. Interesting how much shorter the growing season is up here compared to the south.Comment
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Thanks Nicos, useful siteComment
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Being on the same lattitude I can advise my brothers victoria plums are great. However a neighbour had a victoria that got canker and silver leaf. So last year I planted a Opal plum here that they say is more disease resistantComment
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I grow Keswick codlin (early cooker) at 250 metres in Devon and really like it - I don't usually go for cookers because I can't be bothered with cooking, but it is sweet enough that you can just stew it with blackberries with no added sugar.Comment
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We are just north of Lancaster on an exposed hill. We have an old apple tree which I'm pretty sure is ashmead's kernel but I'm trying to get a confirmed ID this year. Its a lovely apple, I like em raw after a couple of weeks storage, and they keep well although only really for cooking. Plums tend to do well unless we have late frost. But by far the easiest fruits for us are soft fruit, especially rhubarb, blackcurrants, white and red currants (most of red go to the birds), and gooseberries do well.Comment
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Cherry wise, I do know a local grower who is doing apricots and dessert cherries but they are in poly tunnels. He's a pro fruit grower and reckons he's probably the most northerly producer of apricot and cherry but says they take a lot of effortComment
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