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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 Longer Articles, Orchard Work Tagged apple, harvest, pear, picking method

How To: Thin Out Apple and Pear Fruitlets

Fruit thinning is an essential operation to carry out to improve your chances of better quality fruit this year and more fruit buds next year.

Published June 17, 2020
Categorised as Longer Articles, Orchard Work Tagged apple, fruit thinning, orchard work, pear, top-fruit

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

Another Holly Mount Pruning Session, Feb 2020

A grey but dry and hugely enjoyable Sunday afternoon was well spent on helping to finish off this year’s winter pruning work.

Published February 4, 2020
Categorised as Longer Articles, Orchard Work, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged apple, maintenance pruning, pear, pruning, restoration pruning, winter pruning

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Speaking of Quince, the 4th release is a sparkling quince wine.

That's it. Just pure quince juice, fermented.

It's good!

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