Early apples

[ken]

I have a James Grieve double cordon apple which I've just summer-pruned. I was aware that two or three full-sized apples had either fallen to the ground or been knocked by bird or animal, and then been consumed. Today I tested them by gently lifting the fruit and all of them came off very easily. This is probably five or six weeks earlier than I would have expected. The fruit isn't quite ready on my two other cordon apples - a Queen Cox and an 'Anonymous' - was wrongly labelled as a pear when delivered, but looks very similar to the James Grieve - but I don't think these two will be much longer.

[oldherbaceous]

Evening Ken, on the farming progrmme on the radio this morning, an apple grower was saying his apples are four weeks earlier than last year.
Mine are a little earlier, but they are not very big.

[Beryl]

I'm picking my Rev. Wilks now, the larger ones are coming away easily in my hand and they must be at least a month early too. I don't think I have ever had my entire onion crop dried and ready for storing this early either. Funny 'ole season again.

Beryl.