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- 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!
- Blue, Great and Long Tailed tits all feed on overwintering insects hiding in the bark of your apple tree. Encourage them to eat the baddies in your garden by hanging fat in the branches of the apple trees during winter months.
- In a small Leicestershire village, Shakerstone Resident’s Association planted ten cooking apple trees of Dumelow’s Seedling (alias Wellington), originally grown by a local farmer, to commemorate the millennium.
- In 1740 Samuel Thompson discovered an excellent eating apple when he was excavating the Middlesex Canal in Massachusetts, USA. The apple, called Baldwin, is widely grown throughout America and the site of the original tree is marked by a stone apple on a pillar.
- Hedgehogs were reputed to carry ripe apples back to their nests for winter storage by rolling on the ground under the trees. When the hedgehog uncurled and wandered off, it would have fruit embedded on its spines to take home.
- Onions were grown by the Ancient Egyptians in about 3 000 BC.
- 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.
- Apples were taken to Tasmania and planted there by Captain Bligh in 1788.
- In Britain 30% of our vitamin C requirement can come from potatoes.
- The Duke of Milan had an orchard in full fruit carried into his dining room “in little carts” for a special dinner in 1560.
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