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Stepover Apple Trees: Winter Pruning

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 Longer Articles, Orchard Work, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged apple, Malus domestica Borkh, pruning, stepover, trained form, winter pruning

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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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