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Category: Top Fruit Thinning

Top-Fruit Thinning Season is Here Again

It’s that fruitlet thinning time of year again! Grab your sharpest snips and head on down to your orchard.

Published June 4, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Thinning Tagged apple, fruit load, fruitlet, pear, thinning

Re-Thinning Apples in the Air-Pot Mini Orchard

With apple fruitlets a little on the small size, it was time to re-thin the pot-grown apple trees.

Published August 10, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Thinning Tagged air-pot, apple, thinning

Fruit Thinning in Action – Thinned vs Un-Thinned Apples

A short post with photos to demonstrate the benefits of removing excess fruitlets. (Again with the fruit thinning..!)

Published July 4, 2021
Categorised as Top Fruit Thinning Tagged fruit thinning

Far Fewer Apples and Pears Than Last Year? Perfectly Normal.

If your fruit trees aren’t carrying much fruit after an amazing harvest in 2020 then don’t worry, it’s quite natural.

Published July 3, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Thinning Tagged biennial bearing, fruit load, fruit thinning

Thinning Apple Fruitlets in our Air-Pot Mini-Orchard

Now is a the best time to hand-thin apple fruitlets, particularly on smaller trees and definitely on any that are growing in pots.

Published June 6, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work, Top Fruit Thinning Tagged apple, fruit thinning, fruitlets, hand thinning, thinning

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richardbrownht Richard Brown @richardbrownht ·
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The protected outdoor melons and watermelons now appear to have fixed (got their roots established in the soil) and are now starting to put on good growth. The covers have been off this week.

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More whitecurrant picking today. Plus blackcurrants, gooseberries, raspberries. I bloody love soft fruit season, I do 😁

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