[Growster...]

After a reasonably small 'June Drop', our Lord Lambourne apples are going brown, rotting away and falling off at an alarming rate.

There'll be enough left for us both, but not a lot of spares for chums; so, are there any reasons for this? It's never happened before!

[ghost61]

My apples are fine, but the pears are rotting!  Weird year....

[8doubles]

I believe much of it is down to aphid damage when the fruit was small .
You do not see the little holes the aphid leave but they are big enough to give the brown rot spores a hold.

[AnneB]

Sounds like brown rot to me, a fungal disease.  We had it on our cooking apple (variety unknown) at the allotment about 3 hears ago.  We cleared away all the rotten fruit and it recovered well last year.

Here is what the RHS has to say about it.

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=114

[Growster...]

Sounds like brown rot to me, a fungal disease.  We had it on our cooking apple (variety unknown) at the allotment about 3 hears ago.  We cleared away all the rotten fruit and it recovered well last year.

Here is what the RHS has to say about it.

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=114

That's the problem Anne, thank you!

I've been taking the diseased fruit off, but certainly not burying them! We didn't get a single pear either, and recall the blossom looking a bit sick about then, and it seems the two conditions are related.

I put it down to that late frost, but wasn't sure about that either!

Hey ho, we live in Kent, so it'll not be all bad!

Thanks also 8 and Ghost, we've never sprayed them so may have to next year.