Posts in category: apples
Sweet, smoky October

What a month of contradictions October is. My breath drifted ahead of me on my morning stroll to let the chickens out and I left a trail of smudged footprints in the heavy dew on the lawn. Yet by mid afternoon the sun was strong enough to have me stripped to a t-shirt, sweating over […]

You can’t win ’em all

So as you know by now if you watched the GOTD programme, I came second to Katherine, who blew me away on the grafting and extended her lead on the tropical crops. Despite Joe naming me ‘Queen of the Borders’ I couldn’t catch up with her on the final challenge. Congratulations have been flowing in […]