James Grieve Year:2 YR Grows well in wetter soil

Grows well in wetter soil (a favourite in Scotland) and described in the Herefordshire Pomona 1876-85 as 'one of the finest culinary apples'

A small rounded tree

Shown on maps dated to the 1800s

Harvest November

James Grieve Year:2 YR Grows well in wetter soilPopular multipurpose apple, good for eating, cooking and juicing. Excellent, refreshing flavour. Red flushed stripes over a pale green base. A creamy, juicy soft flesh, keeps its shape when cooked, one of the best apples to accompany your cheese board. It is self fertile, a reliable cropper, ready to harvest mid September. Raised by James Grieve in Edinburgh, thought to be a seedling of Potts' Seedling. First recorded in 1893, then introduced by his