STEEPHOLDING
OFF-GRID SMALL SCALE FARM
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Fruit trees & Gift Vouchers

We graft and sell apple, pear, plum, gage, damson, cherry and quince trees that we believe to be some of the best varieties, including many English heritage, and particularly Somerset, Devon and Cornish varieties as we are based in the South-West. We use a range of rootstocks to produce, dwarf , semi-dwarf, semi-vigorous and vigorous trees and also graft onto the drought and waterlogging tolerant MM111. By post or collection

Fruit Trees

Thank you for all your interest and orders. We will back in September with new bare root stock that can be pre-ordered for delivery and collection from Mid-winter 2023

Bloody Ploughman

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Bloody Ploughman

£22.00

Sweet, crisp and juicy. Chunky bright red eating apple, shiny with ribs and pink tinged flesh. Vigorous Scottish variety that will grow well in cold spots. Gets its name from the legend that it grew from a seed in an apple that a ploughmans wife found in his jacket, after he had been shot by a gamekeeper possibly for scrumping the apples.

1800, Scottish

Flowering group: 4

Pick: Mid-September

Storage: til November

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