Longer Articles – Orchard Notes

Winter Pruning to Control Apple Canker

Sometimes a drastic tree health problem like apple canker requires a fairly drastic pruning remedy.

A follow-up to last year’s stepover winter pruning post, with details of re-growth and this year’s pruning.

Feature image: a grafted family tree

I’ve been meaning to graft up a multi-variety apple tree for a while; here’s my first attempt.

Feature image - Cordon Planting - trees planted

It’s always a good day when you get to plant new apple trees.

A chance glance at a Tweet sparks hours of enjoyable research into old apple varieties and this very long-read piece.

The recent UK-wide cold-snap will have been really good for our fruit trees – here’s why.

It’s twelfth night – or one of them – which can mean only one thing in the orchard: Wassail!

Top fruit harvest season is here, so it’s time for a guide to picking apples and pears the safe and careful way.

Fruit thinning is an essential operation to carry out to improve your chances of better quality fruit this year and more fruit buds next year.

2020 has been a rather excellent year for fruit blossom. Here’s a gallery of some examples I’ve seen in various places.