KT Tunstall “Black Horse & The Cherry Tree” on Jools
Posted by admin on Nov 13, 2009
KT Tunstall’s first performance on UK TV on “Later… With Jools Holland”. She stole that particular show for me, and this performance launched her career…
How To Choose Fruit Trees
Posted by admin on Nov 11, 2009
Learn how to choose the right fruit tree for your property. From the Southwest Yard & Garden series.
Pruning Fruit Trees-Part 3 of 3
Posted by admin on Nov 9, 2009
How and when to properly prune your fruit trees for maximum harvest yield
How To Identify Fruit Tree Problems
Posted by admin on Nov 7, 2009
Learn how to identify problems with fruit trees, including chlorosis, planting the tree with the bud union above ground, and spacing branches. From the Southwest Yard & Garden series.
Pruning Fruit Trees-Part 1 of 3
Posted by admin on Nov 5, 2009
How and when to properly prune your fruit trees for maximum harvest yield
restoring old apple trees part 2
Posted by admin on Nov 2, 2009
Second of six videos on sensitively restoring some old apple trees in a small backyard orchard. Southampton, February 2009. the only tool you need is a good saw, I have posted a few other vids on how to use a saw safely to remove large branches and won’t go over it all again. If in doubt, remove LESS wood than you think you need to, as a rough guide 20-30% maximum, and saw out whole branches to reduce crowding. Remove wood which is obviously dead or diseased. As someone has correctly …
IDF Uproots Palestinian Fruit Trees
Posted by admin on Oct 31, 2009
This video documents the Israeli army uprooting olive trees in the West Bank village of Ertas in order to make room for a sewage system for the settlement of Efrata. Video & editing by Yossi Yaakov
High Density Fruit Tree Growing
Posted by admin on Oct 29, 2009
A visit to the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center’s fruit tree orchard.
restoring old apple trees part 3
Posted by admin on Oct 27, 2009
Continuing a morning’s work in a friend’s back garden orchard. As discussed, there are 2 main reasons for growing an apple tree in your garden, fruit production and beauty. Ideally the 2 things can be combined. In our commercial orchard, we are out for maximum production. I know that even higher production is achieved from modern high input hedgerow orchards, but I won’t go that far, not our scene. we grow apples on open centre and delayed open centre dwarf bushes no taller than 7 feet …
restoring old apple trees part 1
Posted by admin on Oct 26, 2009
Julia and I had the opportunity on February 14th 2009 to help some friends who had moved into a house with a mature garden and some old fruit trees, mainly apples and 2 pears, which were somewhat overgrown. I am putting up half a dozen videos to show roughly what we did. What to do with an old fruit tree in a garden which is not ideally situated, may be diseased, and has not been pruned for years is probably the question I am most often asked. There is a good section on restoring a neglected …