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Every year I discover a new favourite apple as the trees in my orchard arrive at their proper fruiting ages. In 2015 I noticed the Red Windsor, a standard on M106 was one of the first to start flowering and was still going many weeks later so was a valuable pollinator for pretty much all the other apple varieties.
The fruits are pretty, red-skinned with a good flavour. They were ripe in mid-season and slow to fall off the tree. I picked a lot for juicing in October, then in November the remaining apples were carefully picked and put in the storeroom. Because its been a warmer than usual winter the store isn't as cold as usual and now most of the twenty varieties put up in store have been eaten or rotted, I only have Queen Cox, Kidds and Golden Russet left - plus a tray of almost perfect Red Windsors. They'll be part of my breakfast for the next few weeks, a healthy reminder of autumn.
The fruits are pretty, red-skinned with a good flavour. They were ripe in mid-season and slow to fall off the tree. I picked a lot for juicing in October, then in November the remaining apples were carefully picked and put in the storeroom. Because its been a warmer than usual winter the store isn't as cold as usual and now most of the twenty varieties put up in store have been eaten or rotted, I only have Queen Cox, Kidds and Golden Russet left - plus a tray of almost perfect Red Windsors. They'll be part of my breakfast for the next few weeks, a healthy reminder of autumn.
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