• Home
  • About
    • Privacy
    • Build a website
  • Contact
  • Around the Estate
  • Online store
  • Archive

Old Varieties

Celebrating and remembering old fruit and vegetable varieties



  • Animals
  • Events
  • Featured
  • Flowers
  • Fruit & Veg
    • Apples
    • Medlars & Quinces
    • Pears
    • Vegetables
  • News
  • Organisations
  • Suppliers
You are here: Home / 2010 / Archives for September 2010

Government reviews heirloom varieties

Print This Post Print This Post
September 26, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Heirloom fruit and vegetable cultivars could be making a comeback into seed catalogues. The government are planning to simplify the process of …
[Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 29th October, Amateur Gardeners, Consultation, European Commission, Fruit And Vegetable, Genetic Variation, Government Reviews, Heirloom Varieties, Heritage Seed Library, Proposals, Seed Catalogues, Seed Swaps, Vegetable Cultivars, Vegetable Seeds


Old varieties under the hammer

Print This Post Print This Post
September 26, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

According to an article in the Independent, we need to forget antiques and start collecting old fruit and veg. If you think prices in the shops are …
[Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Antiques, Attendees, Charity Auction, Farming, Food Banks, Fruit & Veg, Hammer, Heirloom Vegetables, Independent, Local Food, Proceeds, Spuds


WW2 Apples from Rimini

Print This Post Print This Post
September 26, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment
Apple orchard at the Ukrainian Chapel, Dumfries

A small orchard of apple trees is a poignant reminder of the lives torn apart by war and a new life forged in a foreign land. During World War …
[Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Fruit & Veg Tagged With: Apple Trees, apples, China And The United States, Custodians, Designations, Dumfries, Europe, European Commission, German Army, Italtrade, Italy During World War Ii, Lockerbie, Matchbox, Matchboxes, Old Trees, Orchard, Poignant Reminder, Portal, Pow, Remnant, Rimini Italy, Scotland, Seeds, Ukrainian, World War Ii, Ww2


First Heritage Apple Crop

Print This Post Print This Post
September 6, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment
Cockpit apple

Our three year old heritage apple trees have yielded their first fruits this year and the taste is out of this world!. September has arrived and …
[Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Fruit & Veg Tagged With: Apple Crop, Apple Orchard, Apple Trees, Apple Varieties, Blemish, Bridget, Devon, Eating Apples, First Fruits, Flavour, Flavours, Freezer, Fungicides, Mulch, Northern Climate, Pesticides, Rootstock, Scotch, Skin Imperfections, Supermarket Varieties


RSSTwitterFacebook

ALSO OF INTEREST

New apple orchard for Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust is creating a new fruit orchard using 60 local variety apple, pear

Meadow clary secure in Gloucestershire

Once common across southern England, meadow clary, a rare blue wild flower, had almost disappeared

  • Juniper seedlings preserve plant in England
  • Survey reveals apple identity crisis
  • Over 365 varieties of cider apples grown in UK
  • West Dean apple fair 2011
  • Orchid Show at Tatton Park
Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes

Return to top of page

Copyright © 2012 · www.thesportsphysio.com · You may also be interested in Heritage and History · Log in