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Tag: Blenheim Orange

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.

Published April 30, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged apples, Blenheim Orange, blossom, bourse, brindille, dard, howgate wonder, keswick codlin, winter pruning

Decision Time For My ‘Air-Pot Mini-Orchard’ Apple Trees

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

Published November 6, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Trials Tagged air-pot, apple, Blenheim Orange, cornish aromatic, experiment, herefordshire russet, pot growing, trial

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.

Published February 28, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged Blenheim Orange, howgate wonder, keswick codlin, stepover, trained form, winter pruning

Modified Lorette System Pruning, Summer 2017

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

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

Air-Pot Mini-Orchard Update: It’s Blossom Time

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

Published May 2, 2017
Categorised as Feature Articles Tagged air-pot, apple, Blenheim Orange, blossom, cherry, cornish aromatic, crab apple, herefordshire russet, john downie, mini-orchard, Morello

Establishing Our Air-Pot Mini Orchard

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

Published February 18, 2017
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work Tagged air-pot, apple, Blenheim Orange, cherry, cornish aromatic, crab apple, formative pruning, herefordshire russet, john downie, mini-orchard, Morello, mycorrhizal fungi, tree planting

Our Fruit Trees are Here!

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

Published February 9, 2017
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work Tagged apple, Blenheim Orange, cherry, cornish aromatic, crab apple, herefordshire russet, john downie, Morello, National Fruit Collection

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Bit o Apple grafting, I’m a bit of a Ebernezer Scrooge when in comes to the apple collection growing my own rootstocks, I don’t use grafting tape or grafting wax anymore just cut up freezer bags , if I’m feeling rich lll get some scions from the NFC

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fruitdiseases KhanLab @fruitdiseases ·
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Beautiful illustration showing impact of manure application on the roots & shoot development of Golden Winter Parmen #Apples tree (1957) in “The Root System of Fruit Plants” by Venedikt Kolesnikov!

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applesandpeople ApplesandPeople @applesandpeople ·
26 Jan

Windfall apples have been strung together in the autumn for bird food during the winter months.

Photo: © Christopher Preece 2023 for Apples & People @preecer

'In 1600, Herefordshire was one continuous orchard. Now, only precious remnants stand tall.

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