Crab Apples

Wherever you walk in the forest where Crab Apple (Malus) trees abound, you'll see that they've all but a few fallen and are now covering the ground under increasingly naked trees. Like so many of the other forest fruits and nuts, it's been a good year for Crab Apples, earlier many of the shrubby trees looked like over enthusiastically decorated Christmas trees decked with hundreds of small green baubles.  So, it's your last chance to gather a few up to make Crab Apple Jelly or such like. It's been easy, with the good weather up to late, to forget how far through the year we are. It's only ten days to Samhain! Soon Shamansburys (a Mighty Boosh reference there) will close, and all but a few of the forests bounties will be spent, you've got to make the most of them whilst they're there.