It’s been a pretty good growing season. At London Road Station garden, we had a lovely crop of apples and pears. We picked pears off the tree back at the end of August, and they were crunchy and sweet. The apples were varied but much better than last year. Along with a good rhubarb harvest, there’s been plenty to make good crumbles.

Our harvest was more or less over by the beginning of September. Meanwhile our crabapple is looking beautiful with bright red mini-apples. These can lend colour to Christmas decorations. That’s about it, really – crabapple jelly seems rather pointless. However, crabapple trees attract pollinators and therefore have value for the rest of our mini-orchard.