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Modified Lorette System Pruning, Summer 2017

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

Published September 12, 2017
Categorised as Longer 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 Longer 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 Longer 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 Longer Articles, Orchard Work Tagged apple, Blenheim Orange, cherry, Cornish Aromatic, crab apple, Herefordshire Russet, John Downie, Morello, National Fruit Collection

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An example. Soil quality analysis on L is from a 16 year old pecan orchard. The one on R is from the adjacent row crop field. Same soil type.

That’s a 127% increase in SOM and a 145% increase in active carbon (microbially available C energy sources) in orchard vs row crop

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