pruning – Notes From The Orchard

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

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

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

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.

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.

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