winter pruning – Orchard Notes

Winter Pruning to Control Apple Canker

Sometimes a drastic tree health problem like apple canker requires a fairly drastic pruning remedy.

A follow-up to last year’s stepover winter pruning post, with details of re-growth and this year’s pruning.

A few chilly images of the Apprentice House orchard at Quarry Bank Mill in Styal.

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

On a grey and drizzly afternoon I spent a happy few hours helping to winter prune a few of the trees in Holly Mount community orchard.