The fact you got a specialist pruner guarantees you good harvests. Trees like that sort of attention.
We used to thnk my mum was mad talking to her trees, plants and flowers everyday until she suggested I talked to a sponsored sunflower plant I was growing. It grew to about twelve feet tall...
Totally agree with you on seasonality.
As a child growing up in the countryside we used to grow strawberries (domestic and wild), raspberries, blackberries, rhubarb and gooseberries. We had cooking apple and cherry trees.
My mum used to make lots of different crumbles and puddings and lots of...