Orchards
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New Year’s Resolutions
It’s the New Year and a boringly obvious time for reflecting on times past and planning for times future. If you don’t want to read my ruminations, come back next week for more of the traditional low-rent apple excitement. Sort of. I started writing this nonsense in 2019 which makes this the beginning of Season… Continue reading
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After a brief hiatus
It’s not easy to admit you’re wrong. Even when you get as much practice as I do. This last two week hiatus has been the direct result of realising that, a) lots of cleverer and better informed people than me have failed to find these lost apple varieties and b) a lost apples blog that… Continue reading
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Some corner of a (not so foreign) field
Louth is a lovely place. Little shops, winding streets, and comfortable benches everywhere offering a brief sit down and space for a gobfull of pork pie. My parents have lived here since time immemorial (1974) and I did too when I was a youngster who still had hopes and dreams. Now they’ve all gone, it… Continue reading
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Cross O’Cliff Orchard
This has been a big week for my blog. An extensive advertising/begging campaign on social media has resulted in me building a small community of follower (my sister) and a group of friends who felt obligated to click on the link and who are now justifiably concerned about my mental health. I’m taking my new… 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.
The Appeal of Mrs Toogood 