Cooking With Richard

Credit: Sven Teschke, Büdingen, from Wikipedia

As well as our cherry tree I also bought an apple tree of the James Grieve variety. Wikipedia says:

This is a savoury, juicy apple with strong acidity at first, which then mellows as the fruit matures during September, but the flesh softens soon thereafter. When picked early, it makes a sweet and delicate stewed apple, but then can be used as a dessert apple. [...] James Grieve is a very good apple because it produces fruit every year, is somewhat disease-resistant, and a very good pollenizer for other apples. It may drop early in warm weather. It is also a good apple for making apple juice.

We’re going to plant both of them at the bottom of the garden.

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