APPLE TASTINGS & OTHER VIDEOS

I have been involved in making a number of videos over the last few years: Apples, looking after trees, winemaking, planning orchards, and some country walks with friend Julie. For those interested, some of them are listed below. There are also piano videos which are listed on the music page.

Apple Tasting 1, 13 Sep 2023: Early Midseason apples
Apple Tasting 2, 11 Oct 2023: Midseason apples
Apple Tasting 3, 6 Nov 2023: Late Midseason apples
Apple Tasting 4, 20 Nov 2023: Late apples

Apple Tasting 1, 29 Aug 2022: Earlies
Apple Tasting 2, 9 Sep 2022: Early Midseason
Apple Tasting 3, 22 Sep 2022: Midseason
Apple Tasting 4, 4 Oct 2022: Late Midseason
Apple Tasting 5, 2 Nov 2022: Late Midseason & Lates
Apple Tasting 6, 21 Nov 2022: Lates
Apple Tasting 7, 16 Mar 2023: Very Lates /Winter Storers

Apple Tasting 1, 10 Aug 2021: Earlies
Apple Tasting 2, 29 Aug 2021: Earlies
Apple Tasting 3, 14 Sep 2021: Early Midseason
Apple Tasting 4, 22 Sep 2021: Midseason
Apple Tasting 5, 8 Oct 2021: Midseason

No apple tastings in 2020; not due to the China virus but because we had no fruit.
Severe late frost on 18-19-20 May 2020 which destroyed most of the blossom.

Apple Tasting 1, 11 Aug 2019 Earlies
Apple Tasting 2, 26 Aug 2019 Early Midseason
Apple Tasting 3, 21 Sep 2019: Midseason
Apple Tasting 4, 30 Nov 2019: Midseason
Apple Tasting 5, 8 Dec 2019: Lates
Apple Tasting 6, 20 Mar 2020: Very Lates

Apple Tasting 1, 15 Aug 2018: Earlies
Apple Tasting 2, 22 Aug 2018: Earlies and Premature Mids
Apple Tasting 3, 30 Aug 2018: Midseason
Apple Tasting 4, 20 Sep 2018: Midseason
Apple Tasting 5, 26 Sep 2018: Late Midseason
Apple Tasting 6, 21 Nov 2018: Later varieties
Apple Tasting 7, 19 Feb 2019: Later varieties

Apple Tasting 1, 10 Aug 2017: Earlies
Apple Tasting 2, 25 Aug 2017: Early Midseason
Apple Tasting 3, 3 Sep 2017: Early Midseason
Apple Tasting 4, 14 Sep 2017: Midseason
Apple Tasting 5, 16 Sep 2017: Midseason
Apple Tasting 6, 1 Nov 2017: Lates
Apple Tasting 7, 27 Mar 2018: Very Lates

Apple Tasting 1, 2016: Earlies
Apple Tasting 2, 2016: Earlies
Apple Tasting 3, 2016: Midseason
Apple Tasting 4, 2016: Lates
Apple Tasting 5, 2016: Very Lates

APPLE TASTINGS
1, 21 Sep 2015: Earlies
2, 30 Oct 2015: Mid-season
3, 7 Nov 2015: Later Mid-season
4, 14 Nov 2015: Winter Keepers
5, 2015: Winter Keepers
6, 2015: Winter Keepers

APPLES AND APPLE TREES
Crossing apples to make new varieties..... ..... Redfleshed apple blossom ..... Just after fruit set ..... Garden update, early Aug ..... Drying apples ..... Apple Sawfly and Codling Moth ..... Queens Rd Allotments: Autumn .....Foxton Orchard: Initial survey... part 2... part 3... .....Botcheston Orchard Intro... Planting ...

MAKING A FAMILY APPLE TREE

Video 1 Cutting back the original tree in January, fairly drastically, before leaving it for a year.
Video 2 Looking at the new shoots where grafting will take place.
Video 3 The new shoots have grown more rapidly than expected...
Video 4 Grafting soon...
Video 5 Grafting the first ten varieties into the framework.
Video 6 Grafting finished - we look at the tree.
Video 7 Grafts starting to grow.
Video 8 Grafts growing too rapidly!
Video 9 First blossom.
Video 10 2nd year grafts growing.
Video 11 First fruit.
Four years later ... (click on the picture below for the detail)

OTHER ASSORTED GARDENING VIDEOS
Pruning a mulberry tree (popular)
Tour of apple trees in blossom
Pruning an ordinary apple tree
Allotment Chat
Meeting Jane and Mike Kelly
Talking about different apple varieties
Tomato blight
Recovering Julie's Allotment 19.02.19
Recovering Julie's Allotment 30.03.19
New Allotment, plot 1 ep 1... ep 2... ep 3... ep 4... ep 5... ep 6... 11Aug19...
Second Allotment, ep 1... ep 2... ep 3... ep 5... 26Aug19...


WINEMAKING

LOGANBERRY WINE

part 1....... part 2....... part 3....... part 5
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RASPBERRY WINE
part 1..... part 2..... Raspberry wine from a book: part 3
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GRAPE WINE
part 1..... part 2
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RHUBARB WINE
part 1 ... part 2 ... part 3 ... part 4 ... part 5... part 6...
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GOOSBERRY & RHUBARB WINE
part 1 ... part 2 ... part 3 ... part 4
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LAGER, from a kit
Brewmaker Pilsner Lager, part 2

COUNTRY WALKS
Sightseeing at Foxton Locks
Foxton: Narrowboats and more
Croft Hill: a winter morning
4: Early morning, 5 May
3: Early morning, 14 Apr
2: Early morning, 28 Mar
Leire Walk, 22 May, pt. 1
Leire Walk, 22 May, pt. 2
Xmas lights, Broughton Astley
Evening walk, 21 May 18

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