Hope that wassailing will bless another crop
SIR – I was delighted to read Joe Shute’s piece (Weather watch, January 7) on planting apple trees and wassailing on Twelfth Night to improve the crop. We are trying the same approach in our vineyard.
Our delightful local male voice choir came and wassailed in the vineyard on Thursday. We will be interested to see how the old custom fares when applied to grapes. We then moved on to a more traditional performance in our neighbour’s organic apple orchard.
Sarah Ingram Pewsey, Wiltshire