[upthetump]

i supplement my pigs feed with apples and anything surplus from the lottie. i can report with great sadness, 100% crop failure of apples within a 10 mile radius of me. last year the trees i gathered from (including 5 of my own) which produced an abundance have yielded zero apples. quite unbelievable. sad sad times indeed. 

[mobilekat]

Its not been a good year for 'tree fruit' people either seem to have heavy rain (we did) or a nasty frost just at the wrong moment.
Then this humid weather hasnt helped either.

All I can say is Roll on 2013!

[LilacSandy]

Not one apple on the five in the lotty, no cherries or Victoria's.  The old plum trees at the bottom of the plot are usually laden with fruit but there are just one or two per branch, and the 30' apple tree in my garden has ONE solitary fruit.

There will be a lot of hungry birds this year I think.

[Kleftiwallah]

'alf a dozen Charles Ross (a bit scabby) and one Arthur Turner.  Also totally plumless.

Cheers,     Tony.

[AlaninCarlisle]

Totally plumless up here too. Maybe half a dozen Egremont Russets, no Cox's and a lot of scabby Golden Delicious that are only ever fit for cooking

[upthetump]

really brings home how vulnerable we are to the elements. i thought this was local to me, as our valley is known for bad weather, too see it across the country is really surprising 

[Trillium]

Even in Ontario we've had a terrible apple year when hard late frosts hit the apple blossoms and took over 70% of our total croppings here. My own orchard took a 100% loss as did many of the huge commercial apple orchards, so don't feel bad. It was disaster almost everywhere.

[joyfull]

no plums here - wild or victoria, but my apple trees have lots on them - both cookers and eaters.

[woodavon]

No plums here, no damsons either!  An empty Bramley but the eater's loaded wiith tiny red fruit (no idea what it is!).  More curiously, my crab apple appears to have died.

[shokkyy]

Same here. My two apple trees are normally heavily laden at this time of year, this is the first ever year I have no apples at all. The cooker pear does have fruit, but the eater pear has none at all. Same with the cherries, strangely - the morello had fruit but not the sweet cherry.

[Trillium]

We had a poor year with sweet cherries as well. The sour cherry season was so short that I missed it. Oddly, peaches did okay but not mine that also got hit with late frost this year  Thankfully I made loads of peach jam last year and have enough to get us through to next season.

[borderowl]

Same here. Not a single apple, cherry or plum. I wonder if the price will go through the roof this autumn?

[love-my-plot]

No apples here either ...all the blossom was blown off early on, with the gale force winds. The flowers hadn't even opened at that stage, so they'd no hope of fruit.

[8doubles]

We had a lot of blossom on the William pear but only one fruit left now ,
James Grieve apple loaded to breaking point again ,
Victoria plum  has more plums than you could shake a stick at , just out to pick a bucketful !
Cox apple was loaded but thinned hard as it is only a small tree.

Generally a cack year for growing but `ampshire still produces ! 

[JayG]

Not a single apple in my garden either. 





(Mind you, I haven't got an apple tree.)