This year’s wonderful summer has produced a great crop of apples in the orchard. On a bright Sunday morning, orchard members enjoyed the sun, wandering round the orchard picked apples. Our younger members had good fun choosing their own apples and tasting them. Everybody pitched in to help with the apple juicing, and we all went away with bottles of fresh, organic apple juice.
After a wonderful display of blossom during May there are now lots of apples forming on the trees around the Orchard. Hopefully it will be a good harvest in the Autumn.
The hard working volunteers who look after the Community Orchard have finally finished renovating the raspberry bed. It looks amazing and no doubt will soon be producing lots of lovely raspberries.
Our fruit trees are now in full blossom and looking glorious in the May sunshine. Why not call in, chose a tree and take a few minutes to do some blossom bathing!
The weather is now warming up (hopefully!) and the days are lengthening. If you take a walk around the Orchard you will see lots of signs that Spring is on it’s way.
The fruit trees are budding and there are some already in blossom. By May the Orchard trees will be clouds of pink and white. The soft fruit bushes are also showing signs of growth and the rhubarb, always the first fruit to grow, is on the move too.
Well done to all of the Orchard members and friends who turned up to help pick our apples and make juice. Despite not being such a big crop as last year we still picked the apples from 50 trees to share with orchard members and produced quite a few bottles of delicious, organic apple juice.
It is well worth a walk around the orchard at this time of year. Many of our trees are covered in apples and it is so easy to see how many different varieties of apples we are growning. The apples are all different colours, sizes, shapes and taste! Many are heritage apple trees and most of the apples would not be found on sale in a supermarket!
The blossom on the fruit trees have survived the cold nights and windy days and made the most of the warm spring sun.
Photos courtesy of Zam Tea.
The Orchard has survived another winter safely and the trees in March began to show welcome signs of Spring and possible warm days to come! The catkins on the nut trees began to show and rhubarb is always one of the earlist fruits to appear in the Orchard.
Despite the damp, rainy October we have been experiencing, we were lucky to have a sunny morning for our annual apple picking and juicing day. Despite the poor crop of apples we were able to pick enough to share with the orchard members and produce some bottles of juice.
Although the apple crop may have been disappointing this year we have had a bumper crop of hazel and cob nuts.
Lanchester Community Orchard 