Winter Pruning a Small ‘Brown Turkey’ Fig Tree
It’s fig-pruning season, and our backyard tree was due for a trim. Here’s how I went about it.
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Winter Pruning: Canopy Lifting and Canopy Thinning in Action
An overview of three recent pruning jobs, in which significant changes have been made to the shape and structure of the trees in question.
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Stepover Apple Trees: Winter Pruning, Year Six
Six years on and the two stepover apple trees on our allotment are thriving under a winter-only pruning regime.
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Pruning Notes: Restoration of a Mature, Overgrown, Apple Tree
Loppers, secateurs and saw at the ready, as an old colleague and I apply a bit of much-needed effort to an over-crowded canopy.
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Winter Pruning Apple Trees? Watch This.
Before you start in on this year’s winter pruning, check out this sound advice from a 30+ year expert orchardist.
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Winter Pruning Cordon Apple Trees, ‘Short Spur’ Method
I’ve been winter pruning my cordon apple trees; here’s the general method I used and details of how I pruned each tree.
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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.
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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.
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Winter Pruning to Control Apple Canker
Sometimes a drastic tree health problem like apple canker requires a fairly drastic pruning remedy.
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Stepover Apple Trees: Winter Pruning, Year Two
A follow-up to last year’s stepover winter pruning post, with details of re-growth and this year’s pruning.
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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.
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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.
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Stepover Apple Trees: Winter Pruning Year One
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.
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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.
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Restoration Pruning of an Overgrown Plum Tree
Improving the branch structure of an overgrown and crowded plum tree on our allotment plot.
