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
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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
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Sorry about the wind noise, it gets better as the video goes on. Stephen Hayes of Fruitwise Heritage Apples advises on pruning the Bramley apple and other apple trees with a similar habit of growth (vigorous, triploid, tip bearer). Part 1, in part 2 the actual pruning will be demonstrated.
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Tagged: actual, apple, bramley, education, hayes, orchard, other-apple, prune, stephen, stephen-hayes, the-actual, very-popular, video
Here is some advice about sawing out a large branch which is diseased with canker.
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Tagged: apple, avoid-damage, dwarf-fruit, fox, gardening, inches-out, plant, saw, silky, transplanting
If you’re looking for a different kind of holiday tree or a unique table decoration, Allen Smith has a creative solution
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Tagged: allen, allen-smith, apple, apples, creative-solution, garden, msue, plant, smith, tree, unique-table
Wolfmother live. Please Experience Them
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George recently gave this apple tree a bit of pruning.
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Tagged: apple, award-winning, evergreens, flowers, gardening, look-at-pruning, petunias, pruning, trees