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Continue reading →: Managing Orchard Conditions: Challenges of a Warm SpringI wanted to write a piece about this spring, the spring of 2025. It has been unusually warm, very dry and not at all windy. I was a little worried but also intrigued. How would the trees fair in such conditions? In almost 13 years of orcharding, I have never…
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Continue reading →: Common Reasons Your Fruit Trees Fail to Bear FruitEveryone keeps talking about their bumper crop this year. A lot of blossom, ample pollinators and now everyone is thinning due to such a heavy crop. Even after the June drop. I mean, it’s pretty much perfect but what if this isn’t your story? Let’s explore and problem solve what…
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Continue reading →: The importance of watering your Quince treesThe Quince are looking amazing, picture perfect in fact. There are lots of fruit and they are naturally perfectly spaced out. It’s great news but that puts the pressure on a bit. Quince trees are VERY thirsty and the weather is not looking like we are getting rain. Assuming we…
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Continue reading →: Managing Aphids on Damson Trees: Effective StrategiesUgh, when the aphids get to the trees long before you do. That’s another years rest for the Damsons then. (a bit of positivity there!) It was a bit of a shock when I approached the Damson trees as the leaf quality over all the other trees is fantastic this…
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Continue reading →: Turning failed fruit tree grafts into a positiveMonths back, you excitedly grafted your fruit tree with so much hope. Eventually, with some of your grafts, you have to admit defeat. However, this is by no means the end of the story and not a negative! Let me tell you why! Why did my grafts fail? There are…
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