When fewer, more closely-related species of bees pollinate an orchard, apple production suffers.
Indeed, for small numbers of apple orchards, PDOM→SYL were unaffected by cultivated apple density, whereas cultivated apple density had a positive effect on PDOM→SYL for large numbers of orchard apple farms.
When I was a boy, the garden was surrounded by a wonderful mixed farm: dairy cattle, hops, pear orchards, apple orchards, black currants, pigs, chickens, hay meadows.
Not new, but much improved, the Chapel Down Vintage Reserve Brut, £22, Sainsbury's, is rich and biscuity with a delightful orchard-apple mousse.
From woodlands, to orchards: apple scab is a fungus that causes dark, scabby marks on the the skin and leaves of the fruits, making them hard to sell.
A fun date idea for the fall would be to go to an apple orchard to pick apples, go on hay rides, and taste cider.
An old orchard yields apples and attracts bears when fruit is dangling in the fall.
It's a big year for us as we're re-stocking the orchard: more apples, plums, quince and cobnuts.
On hillier ground lie orchards for apples and pears.
Grapes are planted on south and west-facing slopes, near prodigious orchards of apples and cherries.
