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Thursday was a day for emergency repairs as the strong winds had snapped at ground level two of the supporting posts for the espalier apples. With the trees in full fruit it was only possible to [...]

He’s a very busy man!  Our intrepid reporter Stan has been out and about again this weekend.  I have to confess that we are probably slightly biased in the reporting of the Dalkeith Show.  [...]

The best crop ever from the plum tree as you can see from the photograph and there are even more on the side. All the plums were taken off the tree and the slightly less ripe ones will go to jam [...]

If you didn’t manage to make it to the show, here are a few images to give you a small taster.

A pleasantly warm day with sunshine to speed up the ripening of the Victoria plums. They are looking ready to pick but are still sticking resolutely to the branches! Last week all the old [...]