Michigan State University Horticulture educator Bob Tritten shows how to thin out apple trees in order to improve the quality and quantity of next years fruit. It should be done in late June to early July.
Categories: Gardening Tips
Tagged: apples, fungal-diseases, garden, julia, msu, msue, shows-how, silky, thin-out-apple, tree, tritten
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.
Categories: Gardening Tips
Tagged: favourite, fruitwise, fungal-diseases, garden, julia, orchard, overgrown-fruit, rootstock, silky, trees, while-the-wood
Here is some advice about sawing out a large branch which is diseased with canker.
Categories: Pruning Videos
Tagged: apple, avoid-damage, dwarf-fruit, fox, gardening, inches-out, plant, saw, silky, transplanting
The series of practical apple tree pruning tutorials continues with a look at the use of the pruning saw. You can use cheaper models (the Sandvik is OK) but for 3 years now we have only used the Silky Fox brand saws, specifically the Gomtaro Apple Ringo 300mm. This has a very thin blade and graduated tooth size which gives an exceptionally clean cut.
Categories: Pruning Videos
Tagged: blade, brand-saws, easy-peach, fruitwise, hampshire, howto & style, plant-city, pruning, sandvik, silky, the-forward, towards-the-sun, umass, used-the-silky