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- 96% of our native peat bogs have now disappeared. The remaining 4% are under threat due to the demand for peat products from gardeners and growers.
- Settlers in 1780s Ohio were legally obliged to plant at least 50 apple or pear trees within three years of making a settlement – before they erected a permanent dwelling!
- Waste analysis suggests there are at least 4 million tonnes of household waste a year that could be composted in the U.K.
- Strawberries and other plants contain a chemical called phytochrome that tells them whether it is day or night and how long the day is.
- Garden Chafer beetles may be found feeding on apple leaves.
- Apple pests include Codling, March and Winter moths – but their larvae provide a useful food for blue and great-tits. There is a number of moths who feed only on apple trees, including the Apple Bud Moth, Apple Ermine, Apple Leaf Skeletonizer, Apple Leaf Miner, Apple Fruit Moth, Apple Pygmy, Green Pug, Leopard, Red-Belted Clearwing, Ysolopha spp. Up to 70 different species of moth may eat apple trees, either foliage, flowers or inside the twigs. Don’t worry, you are most unlikely to have them all eating your tree at the same time!
- The National Fruit Collection at Brogdale Horticultural Trust in Kent grows over 2000 different apple varieties. They are open to the public and will try to identify any variety sent in to them, for a moderate price.
- Many apple varieties have been found as chance seedlings on rubbish tips or in hedges. These include Granny Smith, Keswick Codlin, Bloody Ploughman and Claygate Pearmain.
- Although bees do sting, they are also responsible for many good things like pollination of plants and honey making.
- Blackbirds, song and mistle thrushes, redwings and other members of the thrush family all love eating apples. So do starlings and crows.
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