The explosion of crisp, commercial apple varieties in the last century doomed many other breeds into obscurity. But in a field in Kent in the UK, some of them live on. A few miles from the sea in ...

The UK is home to many varieties of apples. But this ancestor of modern apples was lost – until some determined "apple detectives" set out to find it. In the family tree of British apples, there ...

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Some British apple varieties have gone completely extinct, which is bad news for growers, who lose the specific genetic information that can be used to breed better varieties in the future.

Growers say sunny spring weather is behind a crop of “bigger, sweeter and juicier” British cherries. Tesco will solely sell ...

We gardeners, on the other hand, can plant any of more than 5,000 apple varieties that strike our fancy. ... Cox is still grown by British farmers despite some commercial flaws.

Apple growers said it would take a long time to reverse the trend because so many farmers had left the industry. In 1972, there was 55,000 acres of eating apple orchards; last year this had fallen ...

British apples are now being supplied all year round, growers say, as production of homegrown fruit increases by almost 80pc in a decade. New varieties and technology improving orchards, storage ...

And superior flavor isn't limited to old apple varieties, British or American. Mutsu (Crispin) came from Japan in 1948. This large, round, yellow apple has a delicate, ...

National Apple Day marks the height of the British season, but are home-grown varieties in danger from vigorously marketed foreign rivals like Pink Lady and Jazz, asks Sebastian Oake. How many ...

Sam Knight on the struggles British apple farmers face, the many unique varieties of English apple that are disappearing, and the efforts to catalogue these apples. Skip to main content.

British farmers will plant a million less apple trees this year as the industry is ravaged by inflation, labour shortages, climate change and cheap supermarket prices. Landowners across the ...