Apple Day cancelled due to lack of apples . . .
With regret we have had to cancel this Saturday’s event due a shortage of apples in the Community Orchard at Great Hill Wood. As luck would have it, the flowering period of many of the apple varieties grown in the orchard coincided with this spring’s poor weather. As a consequence, the insects that we rely on to visit the trees didn’t venture out of doors and few flowers got pollinated, resulting in very little fruit-set. Visitors to the orchard will notice that many of the trees are bare, with only a few having any quantity of fruit. Unfortunately this sort of thing does happen from time to time: we hope for a better harvest next year!