When I said on 31st October that I had finished picking the apples, I had clean forgotten about my Musselwick tree: well away from the orchard, behind the shed. That’s where the clothes line is, so when on 1st November I went to hang out the washing…
Musselwick is another unique variety of mine, grown I assume from a Braeburn pip – because the fruit is very firm and dense, thus really crisp: good gnashers needed to make any impression. This has been a very slow-developing tree and so, interestingly, 2021 is the first year I have enough apples to fill a storage tray – giving me sufficient fruit to judge its keeping qualities: fingers crossed!
