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Saddleworth Orchard

Dobcross
Saddleworth, Yorkshire OL35AY
United Kingdom
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Profile

Mostly apple orchard being planted in Spring 2012. Orchard size is approx. 50 trees on an initial 1 acre, south facing slope. Majority are M25 with several MM106 rootstock. The orchard will be extended in 2013 to include other varieties. The field (1.7 acres) will be turned to meadow too.


Products / Fruit Grown

Eaters: Discovery, Ellison's Orange, Braeburn, Greensleeves, Sunset, Cox's Orange Pippin, Pitmaston Pineapple, King of the Pippins, Fortune, Ribston Pippin, Winston Dual purpose: Peasgood Nonsuch Cookers: Bramley Seedling, Roundway Magnum Bonham, Lord Derby, Annie Elizabeth, Newton WonderPlum: Victoria, Opal, Golden Gage, Wild Cherry Plum (Red) Pear: Conference, Comice