Grafting Apple Trees
Posted by admin on Oct 18, 2009
Turn a green apple tree into a red apple tree–or add several varieties of apples to the same tree. This step-by-step demonstration shows a grafting technique that works with nearly any deciduous tree.
The Apple Tree Revival (2006)
Posted by admin on Oct 6, 2009
Short promo vid of Broadway’s Revival Cast of The Apple Tree (2006) starring Kristin Chenoweth. Enjoy!
As an extra note, I just want to let you know that I have may many Broadway videos up for trade, if you’re interested. Please message me if you want to trade for Wicked’s (OBC, OLC and replacement casts), The Wild Party, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Avenue Q, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Legally Blonde, The Apple Tree, Rent, Spamalot, Phantom of the Opera, etc etc etc… Thanks so much!…
Down To Earth – Grafting Fruit Trees
Posted by admin on Oct 4, 2009
Tom shows us how to graft fruit trees by attaching a few varieties of apple to a single tree.
Fruitwise apple tree grafting, the saddle graft
Posted by admin on Sep 26, 2009
Demonstration of one of the simplest and most useful techniques for grafting fruit trees. A ‘pencil’ of the scion wood, variety Queen Cox in this case, is used from storage, these need to be cut while the wood is winter-dormant eg February to early March, and stored cool and not too dry. I usually put them in a plastic bag in the fridge. LABEL carefully. The right time to graft is bud burst to early green leaf, roughly April. This was done on the last day of a warm southern English March …
Fruitwise guide to pruning apple trees part 2
Posted by admin on Sep 24, 2009
Second in a series of tutorials from the Fruitwise orchard in Hampshire, England. These tutorials are fairly rough and ready, please comment and make suggestions, I will try to add more information. It’s January now, I hope to also look at fruit thinning in May and summer pruning and keep a sort of online orchard diary through the season so you can se how the trees I pruned for these videos do from now until harvest in autumn 2008. Story of our orchard is on www.fruitwise.net will take you …
Small Fruit Trees
Posted by admin on Sep 6, 2009
You can grow fruit trees in a small space. New dwarf varieties and hybrids are bringing fruit trees to everyone.
Fruitwise guide to pruning apple trees-part 1
Posted by admin on Aug 18, 2009
Stephen Hayes of Fruitwise Heritage Apples offers a series of video tutorials on pruning of apple trees. I do not claim to be an ‘expert’, I have learned about pruning from reading every book I could find and studying the trees themselves. See my web site on www.fruitwise.net for more about our orchard and apples. The pruning method I use is a mixture of renewal and a version of the Lorette style and a few other styles, but above all is based on an understanding of how the trees grow and …
Cannabis Forgetting and the Botany of Desire: Michael Pollan
Posted by admin on Aug 13, 2009
Contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and the author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan delivers this Avenali Lecture on the stories of four familiar plant species: the apple,the tulip, the potato, and cannabis. [1/2003] [Humanities] [Show ID: 7048]