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Tag: winter pruning

Stepover Apple Trees: Winter Pruning, Year Three

I’ve been shunning the standard advice and only winter pruning trained apple trees for three years now. Here’s how it’s going.

Published April 30, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged apples, Blenheim Orange, blossom, bourse, brindille, dard, howgate wonder, keswick codlin, winter pruning

A Tale of Two Crab Apple Trees

I’ve pruned two very different crab apples this year – here’s how I approached each one, and the results of the work.

Published March 26, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged crab apple, john downie, maintenance pruning, restoration pruning, winter pruning

Winter Pruning to Control Apple Canker

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

Published March 7, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard P&D, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged apple, apple canker, lord clyde, winter pruning

Stepover Apple Trees: Winter Pruning, Year Two

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

Published February 28, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged Blenheim Orange, howgate wonder, keswick codlin, stepover, trained form, winter pruning

Gallery: Winter in the Orchard at Quarry Bank

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

Published February 12, 2021
Categorised as Gallery, Orchard Work Tagged orchard imagery, Quarry Bank, winter, winter 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

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

Pruning Session: Holly Mount Orchard, January 2020

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.

Published January 7, 2020
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work, Top Fruit Pruning Tagged Bury, Holly Mount Orchard, orchard work, winter pruning

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Bit o Apple grafting, I’m a bit of a Ebernezer Scrooge when in comes to the apple collection growing my own rootstocks, I don’t use grafting tape or grafting wax anymore just cut up freezer bags , if I’m feeling rich lll get some scions from the NFC

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Beautiful illustration showing impact of manure application on the roots & shoot development of Golden Winter Parmen #Apples tree (1957) in “The Root System of Fruit Plants” by Venedikt Kolesnikov!

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26 Jan

Windfall apples have been strung together in the autumn for bird food during the winter months.

Photo: © Christopher Preece 2023 for Apples & People @preecer

'In 1600, Herefordshire was one continuous orchard. Now, only precious remnants stand tall.

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