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Continue reading →: Deer damage on fruit treesHere are a few photos of Deer damage on the fruit trees. They like the fresh new growth. I don’t mind so much on the trained and Columnar fruit trees as I will soon be pruning the damage out and they favour longer new shoots. If the Deer had antlers…
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Continue reading →: National apple day 2023National apple day has come back around again. An ode to celebrate apples and a reminder of our British apple roots…excuse the pun. National apple day was started to 1990 by Common Ground in a bid to save our orchards and promote british diversification of all species not just apples.…
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Continue reading →: Bird pecks on apples and pearsI get asked about bird damage alot. It’s something that’s really annoying but I tolerate it because for the rest of the year, the birds are doing a fantastic job helping to control allsorts of pests, cleaning up the orchard to make nests etc. Are birds a necessary evil when…
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Continue reading →: When is my fruit ready to pick?In horticulture there are a lot of rules and I feel like we should take much more of an agricultural approach sometimes in terms of working with the weather and other conditions. I see a lot of people ridiculed online for picking their early apples in particular, too soon. Now,…
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Continue reading →: Silver leaf diseaseIt’s a lovely day, a perfect one to enjoy the garden or orchard. You’re admiring your trees and then bam…you notice some of the leaves on your fruit trees are silver…What is that? Why are some of the leaves on my tree silver? Silver leaf disease is a common fungal…
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