Fruit Tree Pruning Pruning is necessary to promote good plant health, remove damaged limbs, encourage new growth, and maintain shape. There are five basic pruning cuts, each aimed at producing a different effect. To produce more or better blossom and fruits. To develop or maintain a desired size, shape and appearance. Most of us have small gardens. Prune to save Continue reading
Author: jon
A Healthy Fruit Garden
It may seem obvious, but I want to start off by saying that a good healthy fruit garden will deliver you good and bountiful crops – quite often without disease or pest damage. I say obvious but this isn’t always the case judging by the number of questions I get from gardeners complaining about crop Continue reading
Site Preparation Before Planting Fruit Plants
If you want to grow any plant or tree in the garden or allotment well, I believe that it is essential to consider several criteria before planting. After all you wouldn’t choose to build a house without a properly thought out site and foundations, would you? In my opinion there are four major cornerstones which Continue reading
Planting Your New Fruit Trees And Fruit Bushes
So now you have spent quite a fair time deciding what to plant and where to plant everything you now need to get those hands dirty and get on with the actual real physical planting. Whilst the following might all seem an utter pain and far too prescriptive it is essential that you take good Continue reading