Kitchen Garden

THE CRAB APPLE -A CULINARY CLASSIC

For many of us who strive to ‘grow our own’, the beauty of a plant often takes a back seat to usefulness. We care less about what a tree looks like, instead obsessing over flavour, cooking qualities and cropping times. However, the kitchen garden has always been a place where aesthetics are at least as important as taste – think of Victorian walled gardens with immaculate espalier fruit trees along the walls, or French-style potagers with box edging and symmetrical paths giving form and structure to

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