How To Prune An Avocado
Edible Backyard How To Prune An Avocado If there is one thing I’ve learnt over the years teaching pruning, it’s that when I start to talk about old wood, new wood, two year old wood – your mind...
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Edible Backyard Back to Basics: Fruit Tree Pruning Videos Here are a couple of videos that I hope will give beginners a bit of pruning confidence. Thanks to my buddy Ray at Soulhaven Productions for...
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Edible Backyard How To Prune Redcurrants And Blackcurrants Pruning currants makes the wickedest difference to the amount and quality of fruit because the fruits come on young wood. Left unpruned, the...
View ArticleIt’s Time To Feed Your Fruit Trees
Edible Backyard It’s Time To Feed Your Fruit Trees The orchard is waking up. Hurrah! blossom will soon be here. The trees sleep is over, and so is the gardeners. Its time to get on the job. One of the...
View ArticleNotch A Fruit Tree + Make a New Branch
Edible Backyard Notch A Fruit Tree + Make a New Branch I hate a glaring gap, an empty space on a fruit tree where a branch should be … needs to be! Here’s a simple, old school trick to stimulate a bit...
View ArticlePump Up Your Fruit Production
Edible Backyard Pump Up Your Fruit Production Today I’m sharing a September task that’ll really up your fruit production in your deciduous fruit trees – pears, apples, plums, apricots. An awesome party...
View ArticleWhat to Do About Leaf Curl
Edible Backyard What to Do About Leaf Curl Leaf curl will be showing up in your stonefruit about now – spring being the time when fungus comes out to play. Here’s my all round approach to managing...
View ArticlePlant Citrus, Prune Tamarillos and Feed your Fruit Trees
Edible Backyard Plant Citrus, Prune Tamarillos and Feed your Fruit Trees Citrus and Subtropical Planting Time is Here! Years ago, I read an article by Russel Fransham from Subtropica that advocated...
View ArticleHow To Thin Fruit (And Why You Need To)
Edible Backyard How To Thin Fruit (And Why You Need To) Removing excess fruit from an over-burdened tree rewards you with a more robust tree and better fruit (this year and next). From mid-spring on...
View ArticleThe First Espalier Prune of the Season
Edible Backyard The First Espalier Prune of the Season This afternoon I pruned the lateral shoots on my Nashi Espalier. This quick prune keeps things fruitful and promotes fresh shoots, the very same...
View ArticleHow To Bird Net Your Fruit Trees
Edible Backyard How To Bird Net Your Fruit Trees There is only one sure way to keep the birds off your fruit - and that's to bird net. How To Bird Net Your Fruit Trees Kath Irvine
View ArticleHow to Summer Prune Stonefruit
Edible Backyard How to Summer Prune Stonefruit Plums, Apricots, Peaches, Nectarines, Almonds and Cherries are all stonefruit and best pruned in summer when they finish fruiting. There's a few good...
View ArticleHow to Pick and Store Plums
Edible Backyard How to Pick and Store Plums There’s a small window, a perfect moment when fruit is ripe for picking. The only way you catch it is by keeping an eye on your crops. With a plum harvest, I...
View ArticleBoost Your Fruit Trees This Autumn
Edible Backyard Boost Your Fruit Trees This Autumn Leaves are turning gold and starting to fall, marking the end of a cycle of growth and the beginning of another as the leaf donates its goodness back...
View ArticlePondering Pruning and New Fruit Trees
Edible Backyard Pondering Pruning and New Fruit Trees Oh, the difference when we ponder! It’s a game-changing state of mind. And it is my gift to you this May – to send you off for a tool-free wander,...
View ArticleJune’s Fruit Tree To-Do List: Your Top 5
Edible Backyard June’s Fruit Tree To-Do List: Your Top 5 Woodash + A Beneficial Mow Lightly sprinkle lime or wood ash from the fire, over top of fallen leaves and roughly mow. Leave the clippings where...
View ArticleBack to Basics: Fruit Tree Pruning Videos
Edible Backyard Back to Basics: Fruit Tree Pruning Videos Here are a couple of videos that I hope will give beginners a bit of pruning confidence. Thanks to my buddy Ray at Soulhaven Productions for...
View ArticleHow To Prune A Grape
Edible Backyard How To Prune A Grape Grapes fruit on new season wood. Prune your grapes every year to avoid a tangle of shoots and to grow better fruits. Grapevines have a tonne of vigour and left to...
View ArticleNotch A Fruit Tree + Make a New Branch
Edible Backyard Notch A Fruit Tree + Make a New Branch I hate a glaring gap, an empty space on a fruit tree where a branch should be … needs to be! Here’s a simple, old school trick to stimulate a bit...
View ArticleHow To Prune Redcurrants And Blackcurrants
Edible Backyard How To Prune Redcurrants And Blackcurrants Pruning currants makes the wickedest difference to the amount and quality of fruit because the fruits come on young wood. Left unpruned, the...
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