National Trust reports bumper apple and pumpkin crops at its sites
The Guardian:
Near-ideal conditions have led to high yields at some of the country’s best loved orchards and walled gardensThe nights may be drawing in and the days becoming chillier, but there is cheering news from some of the UK’s best loved orchards and walled gardens: a bumper crop of apples and pumpkins.Fruit and squashes have ripened weeks earlier than normal in…