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My Fruit Harvest Highlights – 2023 Edition

It’s my 2023 fruit growing round-up! The highs and the lows, the good and the bad, the weird and the wonderful.

Published November 12, 2023
Categorised as Feature Articles, Soft Fruit Harvesting, Top Fruit Harvesting Tagged apple, aronia, blackcurrant, blueberry, cornelian cherry, fermenting, fig, gooseberry, harvest, medlar, pear, plum, raspberry, redcurrant, whitecurrant, wineberry

Harvest 2022 – Top Fruit from the Allotment Orchard

Here are the extended highlights of this year’s harvest of apples, pears, quinces, plums and damsons. Top fruit galore!

Published October 23, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Harvesting Tagged apple, cordon, damson, harvest, medlar, pear, plum, quince, stepover, top fruit

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

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 Feature Articles, Orchard Work Tagged apple, harvest, pear, picking method
  1. Darren T on Decision Time For My ‘Air-Pot Mini-Orchard’ Apple TreesNovember 26, 2023

    Nope, absolutely perfect timing :)

  2. Darren T on Decision Time For My ‘Air-Pot Mini-Orchard’ Apple TreesNovember 26, 2023

    Wow. Amanda, thank you so much, that is *amazing* advice. I was planning to spend hours and hours researching the…

  3. Amanda on Decision Time For My ‘Air-Pot Mini-Orchard’ Apple TreesNovember 26, 2023

    sorry- that was just a tad late

  4. Amanda on Decision Time For My ‘Air-Pot Mini-Orchard’ Apple TreesNovember 26, 2023

    Also, regarding planting in pots and exhaustion of nutrients and deterioration of soil structure, I'll share what I've done with…

  5. Darren T on My Fruit Harvest Highlights – 2023 EditionNovember 22, 2023

    You're welcome Russ! Best of luck with your grafting experiments, please do keep me posted.

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