Paula Fleming

If sugar puffs grew on trees!

Yes, it's fantastic. Everything is promising except one on the right. I have utilised a Dutch cut to try and push something out into the space.

Thank you, my pruning, sadly not my tree. We're trying to get that tenth tier in at the top and get the missing horizontals back.

Now that's an Espalier! Note tools on bottom right for scale!!!

Brr!..but beautiful!

Now I'm the pest as I try to not cut them in half or knock off too many off whilst pruning, they're everywhere! Which is a very good problem to have. 🙂

#beneficialinsects #workingwithnature #workingalongsidenature #ladybird #ladybug

A leaf hammock for some of our best beneficial insects in the orchard.

Aphids are one of the biggest pests in orchards. One ladybird can eat up to 60 aphids a day! Or up to 5000 in their lifetime. That's a lot of help. At the moment, they are hibernating and having a well deserved rest.

Well, Strawberries have the cutest true leaves I have ever seen!!! 🍓

#strawberries #strawberry #strawberryseedlings #gariguette #strawberrygariguette #fraise #fraisegariguette #maradesbois #strawberrymaradesbois #fraisemaradesbois #gyostrawberries #gyofruit #growyourownfruit

It does make me laugh that the Kiwis are absolutely fine every single day. Then the first proper frost makes it say "nope" and every leaf comes off.

Some plants have proper personalities...or maybe I've been around them for too long! 😄

Anyway, the kiwis are harvested, that is now all the fruit in!

It's worth an ask. I shall email them and see if they will let me grab a couple of scions. Thank you.

Amazing, thank you. I'm ashamed to say after living in Northamptonshire for a good 15 years or so I never visited Lyveden. It was.

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Hello, I'm on the hunt for the Golden Harvey apple. Any ideas? Full story linked below.

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Agreed, I tried one last week, it's not one for my taste buds! Not for eating fresh anyway.

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A nice way of saying overripe 🙂

Not really as we do not have enough for the menu. Our development chef will play with some of them because we would like them on the menu in some way or for the bar. I'll take some too and the rest will go to staff.

Medlars are now harvested. Let the bletting commence.

After grading the tray on the left is unbletted and the fruit is still hard and has that lovely golden colour still.

The tray on the right are bletted so they are a darker brown and squashy.

I really wanted this video to put across the importance of small businesses and the loveliness of a family business.

Also of course how important our home grown fruit is!

#buybritish #applebrandy #organic #organicgrown

A few days in the life of some of our apples. These will come back to Le Manoir as apple brandy in 5 years time.

A big shout out to Capreolus distillery who we have worked with for a few years now.

I love seeing the outcome of so much work over the growing year.

It's not over yet!

New favourite! 😄

It's basically the same set up we had on the farm.

I loved our hydro presses!

It doesn't look appetising I grant you, but look at the colour of the tickled pink apple pulp before pressing. 🍎

I didn't take a picture of the juice but you can imagine how red that was. 🍷

To be honest, I have loved this year. What a challenge. I am ready for a break though!

All the dates went out of the window this year...apart from Medlars. They seem to be behaving. 😄

I intended to take a photo of every variety but the harvest has been so early and there's been so much I haven't had time

Probably the best smelling trailer in the world....ever!

The Quince harvest is in. We have Champion and Portugal and it's about 220kg!

Red falstaff and Granny smith apples are there too.

Hiding underneath we have Christmas Pearmain, Orleans reinette and Chivers delight.

Hi. No, this apple is Bramley but it can happen with any apple. It's a physiological response.

Absolutely no idea! 🤔😊