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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

Restoration Pruning of an Overgrown Plum Tree

Improving the branch structure of an overgrown and crowded plum tree on our allotment plot.

Published August 25, 2019
Categorised as Longer Articles, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged plum, restoration pruning

Aphid Update: Damson Saved, Plum Under Threat

Just when I thought the 2019 aphid night mare might have ended…

Published August 1, 2019
Categorised as Longer Articles, Orchard P&D Tagged aphid, pest control, plum

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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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