Tag: Blenheim Orange | Orchard Notes

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.

An interesting idea that still has potential, but mistakes (many mistakes) were made. Time to reboot.

A follow-up to last year’s stepover winter pruning post, with details of re-growth and this year’s pruning.

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

A healthy display of blossom should hopefully mean a few fruits to enjoy later in the year.

In which we plant out our new fruit trees into air-pot containers.

Taking delivery of our fruit trees from the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale.