Pick of the crop

摘要

Fed up with tasteless supermarket apples? You don't have to resort to scrumping to find delicious fruit. Andrea Hulme discovers some mouth-watering apples for small gardens at Wisley. Although your taste buds become less sensitive with age, it might not be your tongue that's to blame if you find that apples no longer measure up to childhood memories of crunchy, flavoursome fruit straight from a farmer's field. Limited varieties of EU regulation size, cool-stored apples on supermarket shelves means the apple in your lunchbox isn't always what it used to be. Choose to grow your own and you'll start to enjoy fruit zinging with flavour once more. Using modern dwarfing root-stocks to limit the size a tree grows to means you don't need a garden the size of an orchard before you start picking picking your own.