These notes are to go with my tree pruning workshops and are for revision purposes for those who have attended these. I hope that they will also help newcomers to pruning. What we want is a calm, long-lived healthy tree with plump ripe fruit. What it wants to do is be an unruly skyward reaching […]
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IMPORTANT : Prune apples and pears (pips) after leaf fall and before bud burst (Nov-Mar). Remove new water-shoots in Summer. Prune plums, cherries etc. (stones) after bud burst and before damp Autumn conditions arise (May-August). Maintenance. Look around the tree, taking note of its general structure and the space between the branches. Remove dead, diseased […]
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IMPORTANT : Prune apples and pears (pips) after leaf fall and before bud burst (Nov-mar). Remove new water-shoots in Summer. Prune plums, cherries etc. (stones) after bud burst and before damp Autumn conditions arise (May-August). 1year old trees (maidens), Choose where you want the main branches to develop, they will remain at the height chosen […]
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When the ground has warmed up and the soil is moist it is a good time to mulch fruit trees. Mulching of young trees is important if they are to thrive well and it is particularly important for those trees on smaller rootstocks. Grass roots are dense and compete for space, water and nutrients but […]
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I think that is all the trees planted for this season, we have planted eight fruit trees in the Empty Common Community Garden and 20 fruit trees on my land. Planting should be done between December and March and times of heavy frost should be avoided. In heavy clay soils which are likely to remain […]
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Orchards (3). Pruning two year olds. After all the bitterly cold weather it was good to be out for a day of pruning and learning as I helped Bob Lever prune the two year old apple trees in East of England Apple and Orchard Project’s orchard. Their orchard has two of each East Anglian variety […]
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I have finally decided what to do with the access strip and how I am going to plant it. I have decided on the plan alongside for the following reasons: Rootstocks. The apple trees are to be on MM106 rootstock the pears will be on Quince A, the plums/gages etc will be on St […]
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Today I went up to the community orchard and pampered some young pear trees which have suffered badly from some human, weather and pest vandalism. They were planted to grow as espalier trees but are all over the place, Some have shoots everywhere except where they should be and some have virtually no side […]
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Orchards (1). How we should live with nature. I have fallen in love with orchards. I have been studying their ecology and management in books on these cold wintery evenings and have also taken the East of England Apple and Orchard Project’s day courses on how to rescue, recover, formative prune and create orchards. The […]
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Welcome to my first blog about our forest garden. I hope to keep a diary of what is happening on a piece of land that I am going to turn into a productive landscape. Last Autumn I bought 5.5 acres (2.2 hectares) of land but have hardly had any time to be there. Still it […]
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BSc (Hons). Environmental Biology
HNC Microbiology
L3 Award in Education and Training
Certificate in Distance Tutoring
