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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.

Published March 7, 2021
Categorised as Longer Articles, Orchard P&D, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged apple, apple canker, Lord Clyde, winter pruning

Planting Up More Cordon Apple Trees

Feature image - Cordon Planting - trees planted

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

Published February 18, 2021
Categorised as Longer Articles, Orchard Work, Top Fruit Planting Tagged apple, cordon, trained form, tree planting

Scion Gathering – Advice From the Experts

Another round up of videos, this time explaining the best way to cut and store scion wood for grafting.

Published February 11, 2021
Categorised as Linking Out, Orchard Work Tagged apple, dormant grafting, pear, scion cutting, scion gathering, scion storage, scions

How to: Pick Apples and Pears

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

Published September 3, 2020
Categorised as Longer Articles, Orchard Work Tagged apple, harvest, pear, picking method

How To: Thin Out Apple and Pear Fruitlets

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.

Published June 17, 2020
Categorised as Longer Articles, Orchard Work Tagged apple, fruit thinning, orchard work, pear, top fruit

Gallery: Top-Fruit Blossom, Spring 2020

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

Published May 1, 2020
Categorised as Gallery, Longer Articles Tagged apple, blossom, pear, plum

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

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: Crown-Lifting a Bramley’s Seedling

In which we remove the lower branches to create space for the tree’s owner to move around their garden.

Published February 20, 2019
Categorised as Longer Articles, Orchard Work Tagged apple, Bramley

Modified Lorette System Pruning, Summer 2017

Applying the Modified Lorette to our air-pot mini-orchard apple trees.

Published September 12, 2017
Categorised as Longer Articles, Orchard Work Tagged apple, Blenheim Orange, cherry, cornish aromatic, herefordshire russet, maintenance pruning, Modified Lorette, Morello

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