The Appeal of Mrs Toogood

Amateur adventures in orcharding

Lincolnshire

  • Windmills of England

    My plan this week was to track down the William Ingall and describe how I moved it to its plush new home along the canal path to Ticklepenny Lock. Unfortunately, events decided not to transpire in accordance with my design. Crawling around my friend Martin’s field and finding the last traces of the Ingall is… Continue reading

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  • William Ingall’s Finest Creation. Probably.

    Here goes then. I’ve got the list and I’ve got a bus pass. Show me an extinct apple and I’ll be on my way. Scanning the list, I decided the obvious first choice for my investigative powers was the William Ingall. The fact that it was developed in a no doubt top secret lab near… Continue reading

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  • So what’s it all about?

    A few years ago, two things happened that are basically to blame for this blog. First, my dad bought a field just outside my home town of Louth. It’s about 11 acres of bumpy grassland with a river running through it. Not a big river, but big enough to qualify. Second, I spent about half… Continue reading

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About Me

I’ve been writing about orchards and Lincolnshire heritage apples for over five years and still don’t know my arse from my elbow. This blog is supposed to be an almost humorous record of my attempts to raise apple trees in a field just outside Louth. Mrs Toogood is just one of the lost varieties I probably won’t find.