Gallery: Early Summer Apple Progress (#NTQBfruit)
The fruit trees at Quarry Bank are producing well this year, too well in some cases. Here’s a quick look at what they’re up to.
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Essential Orchard Work for Early Summer
Summer can seem like a quiet, peaceful time in the orchard, but there are still plenty of important jobs to be getting on with.
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Mid-Year Update, 2022 Edition
Here’s a quick summary of my various orchard-related activities so far this year.
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Top-Fruit Thinning Season is Here Again
It’s that fruitlet thinning time of year again! Grab your sharpest snips and head on down to your orchard.
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Re-Thinning Apples in the Air-Pot Mini Orchard
With apple fruitlets a little on the small size, it was time to re-thin the pot-grown apple trees.
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Fruit Thinning in Action – Thinned vs Un-Thinned Apples
A short post with photos to demonstrate the benefits of removing excess fruitlets. (Again with the fruit thinning..!)
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Far Fewer Apples and Pears Than Last Year? Perfectly Normal.
If your fruit trees aren’t carrying much fruit after an amazing harvest in 2020 then don’t worry, it’s quite natural.
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Thinning Apple Fruitlets in our Air-Pot Mini-Orchard
Now is a the best time to hand-thin apple fruitlets, particularly on smaller trees and definitely on any that are growing in pots.
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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.
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Time To Thin Out The Apples
Thinning out weaker, surplus fruitlets helps to improve the size and quality of the final fruits.
