Continuing a morning’s work in a friend’s back garden orchard. As discussed, there are 2 main reasons for growing an apple tree in your garden, fruit production and beauty. Ideally the 2 things can be combined
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Tagged: apple, apples-on-open, commercial, education, garden, live, orchard, production, prune, restore, stephen, summer, tree-or-three
Julia and I had the opportunity on February 14th 2009 to help some friends who had moved into a house with a mature garden and some old fruit trees, mainly apples and 2 pears, which were somewhat overgrown. I am putting up half a dozen videos to show roughly what we did.
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Tagged: favourite, fruitwise, fungal-diseases, garden, julia, orchard, overgrown-fruit, rootstock, silky, trees, while-the-wood
Patti, the Garden Girl, talks about using fruit trees in your urban landscape. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Tagged: fruit, garden, garden-girl, living, moreno, oil, orchard, patti, peak, permaculture, sustainable, trees, urban, using-fruit, your-urban
Ed Laivo and Tom Spellman of Dave Wilson Nursery give you advise on how to prune fruit trees.
Categories: Pruning Videos
Tagged: dave, density, education, fruit, laivo, orchard, tom, wilson-nursery
Choices for pruning pole saws.
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Tagged: cutting, gardening, howto & style, ladders, life, orchard, pole, prune, pruning-tree, saw, soil, tips, tomatoes, tree
This short video show an open centred bush tree which has been well pruned to space the fruit buds evenly through the space occupied by the overall volume of the tree. This was taken on 15th March, once the buds ‘burst’ the next stage is pink bud, then blossom which shoudl be in about 4 weeks depending on weather.
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Tagged: burst, fruitwise, open-centred, orchard, pruning, short, these-videos, video-tutorials
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
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.
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Tagged: england-these, fruitwise, orchard, pruning, season, these-videos, tom, tree, video-tutorials, wilson-nursery
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.
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Tagged: dave, density, education, few-other, fruitwise, not-claim, orchard, tom, tree, trees-grow, video-tutorials, wilson-nursery
Loquat trees stay green in the winter and produce an apricot-like fruit. Learn about planting and caring for loquat trees in this free online gardening and tree cultivation instructional video
Categories: Pruning Videos
Tagged: fruit, gassiot, howto & style, leaves, orchard, own-organic, pruning, trees, trees-stay, trim, winter