Just a quick reminder about Sunday’s Apple Fun Day at Growing Together Gardens. Here’s hoping for some good weather!
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…and a couple of ‘taster’ pictures by Vic Shorney taken at the St. Laurence Orchard Open Day last Saturday, with Andrew Tann’s display from Crapes Fruit Farm, Aldham, near Colchester
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At last! A wet October and more months now needed like this to rescue the root systems of established trees whether they be apple or any other.
It is now apparent just how stressed the apple trees were last spring and they will need nurturing to recover. Just three wet winter months won’t do the trick without some human input on top in the form of pruning. A good oppurtunity to be quite firm with any growy trees. Concentrate on the thinning out 3 or 4 year old wood and don’t take a chainsaw to the older thicker branches, which we hope will be able to hoard more reserves than last winter if the roots underneath are more active.
Grease bands for the wingless female Winter moth to be caught by should be applied now.
Andrew Tann, Crapes Fruit Farm