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Time to Check Grafted Trees for Rootstock Regrowth

As leaves start to grow on your top-fruit trees it’s a good time to check your grafted plants for unwanted rootstock bud-break.

Published June 3, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work, Top Fruit Grafting Tagged grafted trees, pruning, rootstock

Emergency Late Apple Pruning for Canker Control

Pruning apple at this point in the season isn’t usually advised, but sometimes you have to cut to control a problem.

Published May 23, 2021
Categorised as Orchard P&D Tagged apple canker, disease control, pruning

F. A. Waugh, on Pruning vs No-Pruning

A gentleman fructiculturists’s forthright opinions on pruning, delivered in 1913.

Published January 3, 2021
Categorised as Quotations Tagged C20th, F A Waugh, pruning

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 Feature Articles, Orchard Work, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged apple, maintenance pruning, pear, pruning, restoration pruning, winter pruning

Mature Apple Tree: Restoration Pruning

Here’s how I went about the first phase of restorative pruning on a mature apple three that has been sadly neglected for a few years.

Published January 28, 2020
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged pruning, restoration pruning

Stepover Apple Trees: Winter Pruning Year One

Here’s how I pruned three stepover trees on our allotment plot, leaving them until January rather than pruning in late summer as usually advised.

Published January 21, 2020
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged apple, Malus domestica Borkh, pruning, stepover, trained form, winter pruning

Restorative Pruning Workshop, Platt Fields, Manchester

A day of pruning tuition and practice at Platt Fields community orchard with the Orchard Project.

Published January 23, 2019
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work Tagged grafting, Manchester, Platt Fields, pruning, restoration pruning, workshop

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Astomi in Manière et faitures des hommes d'Orient c1290. Unknown author. Bibliothèque municipal Valenciennes, France. Portail Biblissima. From our latest Apple Story 'The Gangines of the Mappa Mundi' available on the A&P website.

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Fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) causing classic bacterial ooze symptoms on apple fruit. This grower had good overall control utilizing Maryblyt to predict infection events & inform pesticide application timings. Controlling this disease during bloom is critical.

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