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Tag: Plot #79

Mid-Year Update, 2022 Edition

Here’s a quick summary of my various orchard-related activities so far this year.

Published July 2, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Site Updates Tagged fruit thinning, general update, grafting, Plot #79

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

Plot #79 Orchard Year in Review, 2021 Edition

We’ve had a mixed year on our allotment plot orchard. Here’s a round-up of the good, the bad and the downright ugly.

Published November 28, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work Tagged 2021 update, apple, apple canker, codling moth, fireblight, medlar, pear, pigeon, Plot #79, plum

Plot #79 Orchard Plan Now Online

The site now contains a set of pages of records of the trees we’re growing on our orchard allotment plot.

Published January 24, 2021
Categorised as Site Updates Tagged orchard planning, orchard record keeping, Plot #79

Introducing Plot #79, Orchard-in-Progress

Preparing the ground for a 20-tree orchard on a derelict allotment plot.

Published January 4, 2018
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work Tagged ground preparation, Plot #79
  1. Darren T on Robert May, on Making a ‘Tart of Medlers’December 7, 2023

    Hi Richard - I quite agree! The more medlars the merrier, I say. I haven't tried a medlar tart yet…

  2. Richard Moore on Robert May, on Making a ‘Tart of Medlers’December 6, 2023

    Here on the Somerset levels we have a large Medlar tree that gave us an enormous crop of fruit this…

  3. Darren T on Robert May, on Making a ‘Tart of Medlers’December 4, 2023

    Hi Petra - yes, sadly the industrial-made stuff is likely to only have a passing acquaintance to freshly bletted medlars.…

  4. Petra on Robert May, on Making a ‘Tart of Medlers’December 4, 2023

    Hi there, I had become curious to try medlars when I saw a video clip on English Heritage. As I…

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

    Nope, absolutely perfect timing :)

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