Cox now…

After a busy couple of weeks flat-out on Bramley, most of our growers are now busy picking Cox for storage. Cox is the doyen of the English dessert apple scene – long-established as a favourite with the buying public. Its traditional form – the Orange Pippin – has been completely superseded in the commercial fruit industry by more modern variants, such as Cox Flanders and Cox La Vera, whose improved storage characteristics allow us to market Cox long into the following year. Despite this, there are still lots of TV chefs who think they’re being clever by referring to Cox’s Orange Pippin…

When picked for storage, they are under-ripe for eating, and quite hard and sharp, but they store really nicely, and will ripen in the usual way when released again in the new year.

Here’s Sande happy in her work in the Jubilee orchard!

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