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Category: Top Fruit Pruning

Another Holly Mount Pruning Session, Feb 2020

A grey but dry and hugely enjoyable Sunday afternoon was well spent on helping to finish off this year’s winter pruning work.

Published February 4, 2020
Categorised as Longer Articles, Orchard Work, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged apple, maintenance pruning, pear, pruning, restoration pruning, winter pruning

Mature Apple Tree: Restoration Pruning

Here’s how I went about the first phase of restorative pruning on a mature apple three that has been sadly neglected for a few years.

Published January 28, 2020
Categorised as Longer Articles, Orchard Work, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged pruning, restoration pruning

Stepover Apple Trees: Winter Pruning

Here’s how I pruned three stepover trees on our allotment plot, leaving them until January rather than pruning in late summer as usually advised.

Published January 21, 2020
Categorised as Longer Articles, Orchard Work, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged apple, Malus domestica Borkh, pruning, stepover, trained form, winter pruning

Pruning Session: Holly Mount Orchard, January 2020

On a grey and drizzly afternoon I spent a happy few hours helping to winter prune a few of the trees in Holly Mount community orchard.

Published January 7, 2020
Categorised as Longer Articles, Orchard Work, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged Bury, Holly Mount orchard, orchard work, winter pruning

Restoration Pruning of an Overgrown Plum Tree

Improving the branch structure of an overgrown and crowded plum tree on our allotment plot.

Published August 25, 2019
Categorised as Longer Articles, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged plum, restoration pruning

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Speaking of Quince, the 4th release is a sparkling quince wine.

That's it. Just pure quince juice, fermented.

It's good!

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