Fruitwise guide to pruning-the neglected apple tree
Posted by admin on Dec 23, 2009
Pruning a neglected apple tree is not difficult. Often when you move into a new house there is a tree nobody has cared for a dn it is overgrown. Don’t worry, unless the tree is seriously post mature, diseased, very badly situated or a variety you really don’t like, a few simple principles and a sharp saw will see it all right. the main thing is to use the saw to remove whole branch systems that are diseased, too low, too crowded or crossing, and mostly leave the rest of the tree alone-at …
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Wolfmother – Live at JTV – Apple Tree
Posted by admin on Dec 19, 2009
Wolfmother live. Please Experience Them
Fruitwise guide to pruning apple trees-spur thinning
Posted by admin on Dec 6, 2009
Further advice on apple tree winter pruning from Fruitwise Heritage Apples. Inevitably there is some repetition and overlap between these tutorials, no matter. I also apologise for having a sniffly nose-sorry, but it is cold! Here I look at thinning overcrowded fruit spurs, more of a problem on some varieties than others. You need to remove excess old spur systems to allow air and light into the tree and make room for new systems to develop. remember, above all, keep th etree in BALANCE …
Runescape Farming Guide – Fruit tree + Calquat locations and how to get there
Posted by admin on Nov 28, 2009
A quick video of where the fruit tree and Calquat patches are. I normally do a run with fruit trees and normal trees at the same time, but this is just to show you where fruit trees are. My Calquat wasnt fully grown in this video, however you just treat it the same as the other fruit trees Patches are: Catherby, tree place, other tree place, lleyta (use teleport crystal which you recieve at the start of mournings end part 1) and brimhaven. I was on lunar magic, so was using teleport tabs …
Fruitwise guide to grafting over an apple tree
Posted by admin on Nov 24, 2009
Grafting is easy, it can enable you to change the variety of fruit a tree bears. This technique, also known as top working enables you to replace a tree with fruit you don’t like with a preferable fruit. Since posting this I have put up videos showing several techniques of grafting -saddle graft, rind graft and cleft graft. You are now (mid April) too late to graft trees for 2007/2008, but you can practice on spare wood and think and research about what if any grafting you would like to do …
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 …
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 …
how NOT to prune an apple tree
Posted by admin on Oct 24, 2009
This is a typical example of the sort of pruning I see very often. Of course the owner of this tree has every right to treat it like this, but this tree will not fruit well. This is the style of pruning I call a pudding basin hair cut, or alternatively a short back and sides. it represents the opposite of the advice and example in my pruning videos. The technique is self explanatory-you just go all the way reound the tree with secateurs snipping back everything you can see until you achieve …