Five Years On: Development of a Fruiting Spur System
In which I revisit the subject of my ‘Year in the Life’ photo essay, to see how bourse-on-bourse fruiting structures grow and develop.
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My Apple Harvest Highlights – 2024 Edition
It has been a very good year indeed for apples; here’s my pick of the crop from our allotment, and the orchards at Quarry Bank.
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Lifecycle of an Apple, From Bud to Blossom to Fruit
Follow the lifecycle of a single apple bud from dormancy to harvest, in this series of 40+ photos.
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Seedling Apple Trees – Let’s Give ’em a Go
In the face of all the best advice to the contrary, I’ve decided to try growing a new apple variety or two from seed.
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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.
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Modified Lorette System Pruning, Summer 2017
Applying the Modified Lorette to our air-pot mini-orchard apple trees.
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Time To Thin Out The Apples
Thinning out weaker, surplus fruitlets helps to improve the size and quality of the final fruits.
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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.
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Establishing Our Air-Pot Mini Orchard
In which we plant out our new fruit trees into air-pot containers.
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Our Fruit Trees are Here!
Taking delivery of our fruit trees from the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale.
