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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

Climate Change in the Orchard: Later Frosts, Earlier Harvests?

A recently published research paper has outlined some of the possible implications of climate change for orchard growers.

Published April 23, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Science Tagged academic paper, Achim Kunz, apple, blossom, climate change, frost, harvest, Michael Blanke, research

Orchard Blossom Season is Almost Here

Spring-time in the orchard and beautiful blossom buds are about to burst into life. So why is it such a tense and worrying time..?

Published March 23, 2022
Categorised as Gallery Tagged apple, blossom, cherry, Morello, pear, Plot #79, quince

‘John Downie’ is the Star of the Spring Show

We’ve had a really good year for blossom in the back garden, with crab apple ‘John Downie’ putting on a splendid display.

Published May 17, 2021
Categorised as Orchard Work Tagged blossom, crab apple, John Downie, Malus, spring

Au Revoir to Pear, Plum and Damson Blossom?

Two nights of bad weather after early blossom has bloomed is bad news, but hopefully not the end of this year’s crop.

Published April 11, 2021
Categorised as Orchard Science Tagged blossom, damson, frost, pear, plum, severe weather

Frost Warning! Bad News for Blossom

It’s every orchardist’s worse-case scenario: a sharp frost forecast just as the blossom is starting to open…

Published April 1, 2021
Categorised as Orchard Science Tagged blossom, frost

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 Feature Articles, Gallery Tagged apple, blossom, pear, plum

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

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Fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) causing classic bacterial ooze symptoms on apple fruit. This grower had good overall control utilizing Maryblyt to predict infection events & inform pesticide application timings. Controlling this disease during bloom is critical.

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