Kent Cobnut Trees
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They are available to collect by appointment or delivery. They are bare root and will be without a pot. These trees have been propagated on our own heritage Kent Cobnut trees some of which are 100 years old. This was featured on Marcus Wareing’s tales from the Kitchen garden. These are whips / clones from the heritage mother trees and so should be ideal for producing the Kent Cob variety.
Many garden centres currently sell seedling trees and these usually yield very few cobnuts. These trees are the same trees that we grow on the farm and if properly maintained should produce a good crop of Kent Cobnuts.
They are suitable for planting most places in the UK. Two varieties are deemed preferable for pollination but not essential as common hedge row nut can assist with pollination. We cannot guarantee the size of the trees selected for delivery but every care is taken to select a good tree.
Cobnuts are packed full of vitamins, minerals and fibre. In winter the catkins on the trees brighten up the trees.
We can offer paid for consultation for large field plantings and management. Please email us if you want more than 10 trees.
All trees are different. Their roots, branches, shape vary. So images are only an indication of what the tree will look like.
We advise watering and planting promptly into the ground (if not saturated) or into a large pot for later planting if required. The pot should have room to allow further root growth. The tree will need a healthy watering over the first few days.
If planting make sure that the root ball is level and not at an angle. Water regularly and monitor. Do avoid planting if the ground is totally saturated and wait until drier, perhaps store in a pot during this time. You may need to purchase or make a tree guard ifor protection in the first 4 years.
The aim after this point will be to manage the growth of branches. These should be allowed to form at least 60cm from the ground. As we are now offering 2ft-3ft (61cm-91cm) whips we have begun this for you.
A useful pruning and management guide is available from the Kent Cobnut Association. Click Here
Fresh Greengages 4Kg-7Kg
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Lighter weights (2kg-3kg) available here
Succulent, unique and an excellent conversation starter around the dinner table. Greengages are a really special treat this time of year, their deliciously succulent taste is perfect on its own but also in a variety of dishes. Distinctly different in flavour to many plum varieties greengages are a real seasonal treat.
Enjoy the delicious taste of British Greengages by ordering directly from Roughway Farm. Currently Available in weights of 4kg, 5kg, 6kg and 7kg. Lighter weights (2kg-3kg) available here
If ordering with another item, the whole order will be dispatched together when the preorder element is ready.
Looking after your fruit: Some greengages may arrive firm. Allow firm greengages to ripen at room temperature. Once ripe or if arrive ripe keep refrigerated in salad draw if not enjoying straight away.
History:
‘Green Gages’ were named after Sir William Gage, 7th Baronet, they were first imported by Sir William into Britain in 1724 and became established as a luxury fruit. Greengages were later established in the newly independent USA and grown by George Washington. A significant number of cultivars have been established in the UK ranging from Cambridge Gage to Laxton’s Supreme.
Our Greengage Boxes are:
– Perfect for parties
– Great value
– Farm fresh quality
– Reduced time from field to table
– Traceability – Know exactly where your greengages have come from
– Directly Supporting British Farming
If you are having a party, enjoy smoothies or just want large quantities of fresh British fruit then order from us today.
What to do with your greengages
They are fantastic fresh but if you want to cook with them they make excellent and quite sort-after jam. They also are incredibly moreish in a crumble or tart. We have two excellent recipes to make a Jam and a Chutney. View our recipes here.
Delivery
Our new fresh fruit one day delivery service currently operates in mainland England and Wales from Monday to Friday*.
Please add a note to your order if you are planning in advance and want your fruit by a specific day.
Fresh Forced Rhubarb 1kg-10Kg
2025 Harvest – Forced British Rhubarb – Now finished – Sign up to be notified about the 2026 harvest by selecting a weight and adding your email below.
We have partnered with our friends at a fellow Kentish farm to sell their delicious Forced Rhubarb. At Roughway we love sharing our fresh produce with you but after trying our friends Rhubarb we had to share this seasonal delight. Grown in Kent this Rhubarb is perfect for crumbles, jams, gins and all manner of foodie delights for the Winter season.
Forced Rhubarb is normally thinner than the unforced and it produces these extra thin and elegant stems which outdoor does not. Our bundles of Tender Stem Forced Rhubarb taste delicious, they are thinner sticks than you would find in the supermarkets but there is no difference in flavour or quality. In fact we have found the smaller stems cook slightly faster and you still get bright pink juice and the sticks crumble nicely.
New Thicker Stems – For 2023 we are now able to offer thicker stems from the plants and crop. These are still thinner than outdoor rhubarb but are thicker than the Tender Stems. Please see photos to get an idea on the difference.
Other Information – The Forced Rhubarb Season usually runs from December to March. Tunnelled rhubarb runs from March to May and outdoor from April/June and forced picks up again in December.
You are ordering British Rhubarb with the leaf. This ensures freshness, longevity and greater flavour but remember to cut these off when they arrive. Forced Rhubarb is grown in the dark.
We may occasionally need to cut off the leaf or shorten the rhubarb before dispatch. This is most often due to vigorous growth making them too long for box dispatch.
Currently Available in weights of 1kg, 2kg, 3kg, 4kg, 5kg, 6kg, 7kg, 8kg and 10kg.
Our Rhubarb Boxes are:
– Perfect for cooking those seasonal treats
– Great value
– Farm fresh quality
– Reduced time from field to table
– Traceability – Know exactly where your plums have come from
– Directly Supporting British Farming
Looking after your Rhubarb
We keep the Rhubarb chilled to lock in the freshness. When your bundle arrives if not putting to work straight away then keep it in the fridge. You will have around 1 week with it being at its best but do monitor. Rhubarb is quite hardy and so if you leave it a bit too long then it is worth trying to cook with it so it doesn’t go to waste.
Cobnut Chocolate Flat Easter Egg
Delicious Handmade Cobnut Chocolate Flat Easter Eggs – Limited Time! – We have chocolate bars also available here
We only have dark chocolate flat eggs left – Chocolate Bars still available.
Our handmade cobnut chocolate flat Easter eggs are crafted in Kent with our roasted cobnuts. The cobnuts are chopped and scattered through the egg to increase the overall nuttyness.
When ordering you can order Dark or Milk or if ordering an even number you can order a 50:50 split of Dark bars and Milk bars.
Kentish Cobnuts are a heritage and specially cultivated variety of hazelnut. At the farm we grow a range of varieties which include Kent, Ennis and Gunslebert. Our cobnut chocolate eggs could use any of these varieties or even be a mix.
Dark Chocolate Flat Easter Egg – (60%) Cocao Mass, Sugar, Soy Lecithen, Natural Vanilla Flavouring, Cobnuts [Cultivated Hazelnuts].
Milk Chocolate Flat Easter Egg – Cocao Mass, Sugar, Whole Milk Powder, Soy Lechithen, Natural Vanilla Flavouring, Cobnuts [Cultivated Hazelnuts].
Please be aware this product contains nuts and could contain traces of other nuts including peanuts. Please take note and be aware this product has allergens.
While every effort has been taken to remove shells some may still remain. Please be aware of this when consuming.
Each flat egg weighs approximately 120g.The nut quantity does vary slightly from each egg and bar. Prices include VAT. Delivery is added at the checkout – Delivery is via Royal Mail or Hermes and is usually 2-3 days.
Fresh British Apricots 2Kg-10Kg
2024 Season – Finished for the season – Get notification for 2025 by selecting weight and adding email below.
Tasty and flavoursome British Apricots. Perfect eaten fresh or turned into a range of scrumptious treats, desserts and jams. Currently Available in weights of 2kg, 3kg, 4kg, 5kg, 6kg, 7kg, 8kg and 10kg.
Looking after your fruit: We keep our Apricots chilled just hours after being picked to lock in the freshness. We also pick early avoid splitting and weather damage. With this in mind, if your Apricots arrive firm then allow to ripen further at room temperature. Once ripe or if they arrive ripe keep refrigerated in salad draw until you are ready to enjoy.
We have a small block of apricot trees on the farm so we top up our own grown apricots with our friends apricots, these are very carefully sourced and also grown in Kent.
Our Apricot Boxes are:
– Perfect for parties
– Great value
– Farm fresh quality
– Reduced time from field to table
– Directly Supporting British Farming
Standard or Seconds
Apricots are a hard crop to grow and can frequently suffer from blemishing, odd shapes etc. We are offering the opportunity to buy some of this perfectly imperfect fruit. Seconds will principally have lots of black markings on the flesh on the majority of the order’s apricots, some of these markings may appear on standard but there will be more common on an order of seconds.
Delivery
Our fresh fruit one day delivery service currently operates in mainland England and Wales from Monday to Friday*. All of our apricots come packaged in card boxes with protection to ensure quality from field to table. The apricots are loose in the box.
Please add a note to your order if you are planning in advance and want your fruit by a specific day.
60Kg: Green/Golden Kent Cobnuts
2024 Harvest – In stock and dispatching
Our fresh Green Cobnuts are widely renowned for their full flavour, they are perfect in dishes or simply on their own. Cobnuts have a nationally recognised nutritional profile and are said to be fantastic sources of protein:
Cobnut kernels typically contain 12%-17% protein by dry weight, and about 10%-15% fibre. Cobnuts are very rich in vitamin E and in calcium, typically containing about 21mg and 141mg per 100g kernel (dry weight) respectively. They provide about 0.4mg and 0.55mg of vitamins B1 and B6 respectively per 100g dry weight.
The product image is displaying 1.5 kg of Cobnuts – Images for display purposes only. Our Cobnuts are available in weights ranging from 500g to 60kg and are harvested between August and October.
Multi Orders: We now offer improved delivery rates but please note if you order or preorder different varieties of cobnut (Kent, Gunslebert, Ennis, Butler) or multiple items we will dispatch them together when all are available as we no longer charge delivery fees per item. Please order fresh fruit separately as most fruits are harvested before cobnut season.
Fresh British Mirabelles – 1.25Kg – 4kg
Fresh Mirabelles – Out Of Stock – Get Notified in 2025 – Select weight and add email below
Mirabelle Plums also known as Cherry Plums are sweet and full of flavour. They are perfect fresh but they can also be made into fantastic jams and even brandy. Speckled markings feature on the golden flesh. They are typically harvested between August and September depending on conditions. If your Mirabelles arrive green allow them to go a lovely yellow in fridge or out of the fridge for quicker results, if ripening out of fridge avoid direct mid day sun and refrigerate when yellow.
Mirabelle plums feature in many French dishes including Tarte aux Mirabelles.
- Specialty Food
- A wonderful gift for friends and relatives
- Farm fresh quality
- A real talking point for foodies
- Reduced time from field to table
- Traceability – Know exactly where your cherries have come from
Gift of Mirabelles – If you want to give some golden mirabelles as a gift then please add your short note to the customer comments section when ordering. We have small cards we can add to the order.
Mirabelles can vary each season. We will be reviewing the crop and if we deem it is not possible to fulfil orders we will refund.
Our fresh fruit one day delivery service currently operates in mainland UK rom Monday to Friday*. All fruit is different and so we will select delicious fruit to send but images are for display purposes.
Fresh Rhubarb 1kg-10Kg
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Following on from Forced Rhubarb season we have partnered again with our friends at a fellow Kentish farm to sell their delicious outdoor Rhubarb. Grown outdoors in Kent this Rhubarb is perfect for crumbles, jams, gins and all manner of foodie delights.
The rhubarb comes chopped and will come in a range of sizes. Some very thick bits and some thinner. There may be some dry splits (split and marking) but this does not impact the flavour, particularly as it is cooked.
Currently Available in weights of 1kg, 2kg, 3kg, 4kg, 5kg, 6kg, 7kg, 8kg and 10kg.
The outdoor Rhubarb season slows in June-August.
Our Rhubarb Boxes are:
– Perfect for cooking those seasonal treats
– Great value
– Farm fresh quality
– Reduced time from field to table
– Traceability – Know exactly where your plums have come from
– Directly Supporting British Farming
Looking after your Rhubarb
We keep the Rhubarb chilled to lock in the freshness. When your bundle arrives if not putting to work straight away then keep it in the fridge. You will have around 1 week with it being at its best but do monitor. Rhubarb is quite hardy and so if you leave it a bit too long then it is worth trying to cook with it so it doesn’t go to waste. Rhubarb can be chopped and frozen.
Cobnut Cards
Cobnut Cards
During the Winter, Kentish Cobnut plantations (platts) are transformed into magical and serene environments. We are delighted to offer you a unique snapshot of these heritage and beautiful Kentish landscapes in the Winter’s snow.
Our unique card packs feature a reproduction of a wonderful oil painting by Kentish landscape artist Jane Cannon.
Jane specialises in painting rural farming landscapes and identifies with the landscape tradition in British romantic and neo romantic art exemplified by artists such as Samuel Palmer and Paul Nash. Jane also look’s to the realism found in the work of artists such as J F Millet. See more of Jane’s work here
The painting on our cards shows a historic multi-stem cobnut plat in the snow. These trees have been pruned in the traditional style with gnarled knuckles at the top of the stems forming the main cropping area during harvest.
Send a snapshot of Kent and British farming to a loved one, friend or colleague.
About the cards:
- Each pack contains 5 cards and 5 envelopes
- The cards are blank inside to allow for your own message in or outside of Christmas
- Each envelop has its own non lick strip seal
- Each card is printed on quality card and is A6 when folded.
- On the back there are details of the artist
- Cards are printed in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
- Save by ordering more packs
500g – 3Kg: Green/Golden Ennis Cobnuts
2023 Ennis Cobnuts Harvest – Sign up for 2023 stock notification below
The Ennis is a large, round and flavoursome cobnut. When green Ennis Cobnuts have tight green husks. As a nut they can be eaten fresh or used in dishes. They are popular due to their size in comparison to the Kent Cob and the Gunslebert. Ennis Cobnuts are usually in short supply so don’t miss out!
Our Ennis Cobnuts are available in weights ranging from 500g to 3kg and are harvested between October – November. Ennis is a later variety of cobnut.
Multi Orders: We now offer improved delivery rates but please note if you order or preorder different varieties of cobnut (Kent, Gunslebert, Ennis, Butler) or multiple items we will dispatch them together when all are available as we no longer charge delivery fees per item. Please order fresh fruit separately as most fruits are harvested before cobnut season.
Fresh British Aprimira – 2Kg – 8kg
Fresh British Miracot – Also known as Aprimira – In Stock
Aprimira is a unique and totally delicious stone fruit. It is a cross between Apricot and Mirabelle and is a combination of both flavours and textures.
It is a relatively new fruit and we love how both the apricot and Mirabelle compliment each other. You can taste the Mirabelle and the apricot and what stands out is the thicker texture from the apricot. Aprimira is also know as Miracot. Don’t miss out on trying this new seasonal treat.
- Specialty Food
- A wonderful gift for friends and relatives
- Farm fresh quality
- A real talking point for foodies
- Reduced time from field to table
- Traceability – Know exactly where your cherries have come from
Why not try with some of our other stone fruits? Such as our Plums, Greengages and Mirabelles. All available to order online when in season.
On arrival – If firm allow to ripen to preference outside or inside fridge. Then when at desired ripeness refrigerate. You want your aprimira to turn from green to oranges and yellows.
Gift of Aprimira – If you want to give some scrumptious Aprimira as a gift then please add your short note to the customer comments section when ordering. We have small cards we can add to the order.
Our fresh fruit one day delivery service currently operates in mainland England and Wales from Monday to Friday*. All fruit is different and so we will select delicious fruit to send but images are for display purposes.
Ennis Cobnut Trees
Potted Ennis Cobnut Trees – Out of Stock
We now have a number of Ennis Cobnut trees available in 3 Litre pots – We are out of 7 litre Ennis Cobnut trees. These trees are on British grown roots and are suitable for planting most places in the UK.
These are ideal for planting and producing high yielding trees. Many garden centers currently sell seedling trees and these usually yield very few cobnuts. These trees are the same trees that we grow on the farm and if properly maintained should produce a good crop of Kent Cobnuts.
Cobnuts are packed full of vitamins, minerals and fibre. In winter the catkins on the trees brighten up the trees.
Two varieties are deemed preferable for pollination but not essential as common hedge row nut can assist with pollination.
The trees do vary in size and shape but are generally between 30cm and a meter. We cannot guarantee the size of the trees selected for delivery but every care is taken to select a good tree.
On Arrival:
We advise watering the pot and planting promptly into the ground or into a large pot for later planting if required. The pot should have room to allow further root growth. The tree will need a healthy watering over the first few days.
If planting dig a hole twice the size of the pot and tease out the roots.Make sue that the root ball is level and not at an angle. Water regularly and monitor.
The aim after this point will be to manage the growth of branches. These should be allowed to form at least 60cm from the ground.
A useful pruning and management guide is available from the Kent Cobnut Association. Click Here
Other information can be found online.