Growing Newbury Green

Newbury Apple Day 2018

Details for this year's Apple Day in Newbury - our 7th event!

Please contact Ceinwen or Judy to volunteer to help - we always need people to help collect apples before the event or cut and press fruit on the day.

You can download a copy of the flyer here

Find out more with reports from last year's event in the photo gallery below and on Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/NewburyAppleDay/

We will also be running our popular Apple variety identification service. This is a dark art and we cannot be 100% accurate, but we will at least give you short list of which apple you might have.

To help us ID your apple it's useful alongside the fruit itself to know how old the tree is, when the fruit is ready, is it best for eating or cooking and any other distinguishing features you've noticed about your tree.

NEXT MEETING 2018:

Our September meeting took place at the Barn Crescent orchard, where we were able to harvest some

fruit for the first time and gave away some apples to passing residents.

More harvesting to come in October as the next batch of apples ripen.

Grafting Success:

Our first attempt to graft trees onto rootstocks! A great way to propagate rare tress and replace damaged stock. This is a Charles Ross about 6 weeks after grafting - you can still make out the roll of tape in the middle where the graft is. Admittedly this was the only success of 5 attempts, but the remaining rootstocks are healthy and give us the chance of trying again.

Newbury In Bloom 2018:

The trolleys are getting into place for this year's Newbury In Bloom. Here's some photos from Newbury Station, who have once again given us space on each platform, even, even during the electrification upgrade work for the station.