Sometimes a drastic tree health problem like apple canker requires a fairly drastic pruning remedy.
Tag: apple
Planting Up More Cordon Apple Trees
It’s always a good day when you get to plant new apple trees.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Modified Lorette System Pruning, Summer 2017
Applying the Modified Lorette to our air-pot mini-orchard apple trees.