A customer at our farm retail store today related that a recent
visitor from England
told him that he could no longer buy his favorite apple variety in
England, Cox Orange
Pippin. It was his understanding, he said, that commercial growers
in England were
restricted to growing a
Hi everyone
David as far as I Know the European Union have no restritions on apple
varities to grow in orchards. In Portugal we are growing more apple that
consumers buy in markets eg. Golden group, Starking, Fuji, Galas, jonagold,
Jonagored, Granny smith, reinnette grise du canada, ect. There a
NO WAY. This is not true. It is more a fact, that Cox Orange is not longer
any more a variety, which earns money for the grower.
The consumer asks for it less and less ( in Germany...)and therefore we
cannot achieve good prices for Cox any more.
The second reason against the growing of Cox is,
