A relatively new variety of apple, with its roots in Worcestershire, is becoming increasingly popular due to its rich tangy taste. Ali Capper, Chairman NFU Horticulture & Potatoes Board from Stocks Farm in Suckley, tells us more
The Red Windsor apple; a wonderful, red, juicy, crisp apple, was first discovered by a Dutch fruit farm manager in Suckley, Worcestershire in 1993 although its history can be traced back much further than this to 1978 when his predecessor had planted new apple orchards in the village.
In the 1970s and ‘80s, the most popular eating apple in the UK was Cox’s Orange Pippin and when the Dutch fruit farmer expanded his farm, he was looking for pollinators for a new Cox’s Orange Pippin orchard. As such, he imported the Alkmene apple tree from Holland, a good pollinator because it is regarded as ‘an early Cox type of apple’. This was the first time Alkmene trees had been grown in the UK and he planted alternating rows – three rows of Cox and one row of Alkmene – throughout his orchard.
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