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Stepover Apple Trees: Winter Pruning, Year Three

I’ve been shunning the standard advice and only winter pruning trained apple trees for three years now. Here’s how it’s going.

Published April 30, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged apples, Blenheim Orange, blossom, bourse, brindille, dard, howgate wonder, keswick codlin, winter pruning

Climate Change in the Orchard: Later Frosts, Earlier Harvests?

A recently published research paper has outlined some of the possible implications of climate change for orchard growers.

Published April 23, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Science Tagged academic paper, Achim Kunz, apple, blossom, climate change, frost, harvest, Michael Blanke, research

Seedling Apple Trees – Let’s Give ’em a Go

In the face of all the best advice to the contrary, I’ve decided to try growing a new apple variety or two from seed.

Published April 15, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work Tagged experiment, germination, herefordshire russet, propagation, seedling

How To: Top-Graft a ‘Family’ Apple Tree

Here’s how I went about creating a ‘family’ apple tree of six varieties, using the rind grafting technique.

Published April 2, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Grafting Tagged apple, catshead, grafting, orleans reinette, rind grafting, rosemary russet, tydemans early worcester, wareham russet, worcester pearmain

A Tale of Two Crab Apple Trees

I’ve pruned two very different crab apples this year – here’s how I approached each one, and the results of the work.

Published March 26, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged crab apple, john downie, maintenance pruning, restoration pruning, winter pruning

A Frost-Pruned Fig Tree, and What Happened Next

Last year our fig tree was hit by a late frost. Every apical bud and fruitlet was killed. But that was far from the end of the story…

Published February 26, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Morphology Tagged fig, frost damage, growth pattern, regrowth

How NOT to Graft a ‘Family’ Apple Tree (#EpicFail)

Feature image: a grafted family tree

The best laid plans of orchardists also gang aft a-gley, especially if you don’t think your clever ideas through properly…

Published February 13, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Grafting Tagged apple, grafting, rootstock, scion

Book Notes: The Orchard Book, by Wade Muggleton

This new book on orchard planning, establishment and management covers all the essential bases.

Published January 15, 2022
Categorised as Book Notes, Feature Articles Tagged apple, Black Worcester, heritage apples, orchard establishment, orchard management, orchard planning, pear, Wade Muggleton, Worcester black

Orchard Visit: Two at Phillips Park, Prestwich

A winter walk leads to the discovery of not one but two new orchards, one on the site of a former kitchen garden.

Published December 30, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Visits Tagged apple, Bury, forest garden, greengage, Incredible Edibles, Manchester, new orchard, Phillips Park, plum, Prestwich

How To: Make Medlar Cheese and Medlar Jelly

Making medlar cheese and medlar jelly are great ways to get the best out of this unusual and tasty Autumn fruit. Here’s how.

Published December 11, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Cookery Tagged medlar, medlar cheese, medlar jelly, preserved fruit, preserving

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Fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) causing classic bacterial ooze symptoms on apple fruit. This grower had good overall control utilizing Maryblyt to predict infection events & inform pesticide application timings. Controlling this disease during bloom is critical.

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