Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Where have all the apples gone?
Really interesting to hear about the local fruit picking events on Harringay Online and thanks for the heads up for the Apple Day on 20 October, 2-5 at Hornsey Vale Community Centre. (More details here.)
Although Apple Day is a celebration of local produce and lots of fun, there is a serious point to be made. This autumn has seen nothing like the amazing bumper crop of the last couple of years, and is generally considered to have produced the worst crop for 15 years. Experts reckon the dearth is due to the cold and rainy summer when pollinating insects were not around to do their crucial work and help the fruit to set. The consequences are going to be serious for the cider industry although one good outcome is that supermarkets are being less fussy about displaying less than perfect fruit.
However, thanks to Blackmoor Estate, there will be apples at our Apple Day and interesting and unusual ones too. We also hope to hear about a new variety of apple tree from the London Orchard Project which is particularly suited to the London climate.
So on the strength of this, the organisers would really appreciate if you would do a couple of things before and after the event. Firstly bring along any apples you have from your garden - windfalls are fine (and actually produce a rather nice cidery juice!)
And secondly, if you like what you taste, add your name to our open letter to local green grocers in Crouch End, pledging to support them if they offer more unusual varieties of apples and plums.( I loved the James Grieve for example currently being sold at Harringay Market.)
Hope to see you there!
Tags for Forum Posts: Apple, Centre, Community, Crouch, Day, End, Hornsey, Transition, Vale
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Permalink Reply by Marie on
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We have a lovely pear tree in our garden that normally gives us lots if fruit this time if year. However this year the pears have actually rotten in the tree before they even had a chance to ripen!
Another reason to support the wonderful new harringey market though.
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Strangely enough, the apple trees on our allotments (sadly not on MY allotment) have gone apple crazy this year. One even fell over because of all the extra weight. I will let my fellow allotmenteers know about this event, and hopefully they can come along with some apples.
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Permalink Reply by Gillian on
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Hi Pete That would be fantastic - thank you. They could message me nearer the time if they want us to pick stuff up - whereabouts is the allotment?
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Hi Gillian. Its the Elmar Road allotments, which are between Elmar Road and Seaford Rd. If you walk up Avenue Road and look over the bridge to the east, you can see them. Was a railway line once upon a time. P
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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Cassidy on
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Hi Pete,
We have a couple of growing projects in N15 I'm involved in. The Avenue Road Orchard and Helston Court growing space.We have carried out a couple of fruit pressings at Brunel Walk community room recently. We were going to have a pressing at the FARA celebration tomorrow, but we can't get any transport to bring the press from Hornsey Vale Community Centre tomorrow morning. We could then organise a small group of pickers to go to the allotments and help pick your bumper crop for pressing.
But if interested the press is available for other community groups, and here is a central place for info on fruit picking in Haringey.
Avenue Orchard has a dehydrator available as well for community groups.
Lots of info, hopefully it's digestible![There are 7 flowering groups in apples, depending on climate, so your variety seems like it missed out on the rain problems most other trees got effected by.]
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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Pete, Gillian has a great point. I have organised (a rather grand use of the word) a couple of fruit picking mornings recenty. Would it be worth doing something similar here? I would hate the fruit to go to waste. I will IM you and maybe we could speak
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