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Dr DG Hassayan ( SP?) does a series of books called the **** expert , I used to have half a dozen or so of his books IE The fruit expert , The vegetable , The green house expert , the bulb expert . The pond expert , The garden expert etc.
Now I regret giving them away to my eldest daughter as she & her fellah split up a few months afterwards & they all disappeared .
You could do worse and see if any are on Amazon second hand or eBay ,
Cherry trees are surface root feeders ,, On some of our cherries I put kerb stones in a 12 foot wide circle . filed them with a mix of manure and light soil then dug a three foot deep trench ( with a small excavator ) round the stones severing all the unwanted roots . My son caused me to go that root after he ran a four hour old £390 32 inch deck Mountfield self propelled mower over some roots despite being told don't go in that area ,there are roots that will damage the mower,
One bend blade & bent crank shaft later ... Luckily my pal worked in NDT at a local high spec engineering company . I stripped things down & he showed his apprentices how to straighten and true things up to within a couple of microns , t'was a beautiful mower after re-assembly
Some fruit trees ought to only be pruned in summer You can cut the crown of a tree to reduce height and turn the lower branches to spider legs that are low enough to walk under and pick hanging fruits .. good for apple trees.
Our Pershore egg plum benefitted tremendously from two brickies barrows of manure round their base area, so much we had to support a lot of branches ton 3x3 old joists hat grew so many plums they branches were in danger of snapping off . A lot were given to work collogues , made into jams , pressure canned and frozen mush as well as 45gallons of very potent wine .
If I were to need to do such care again , I'd do a few internet searches for the likes of the 1950's & 60's Percy Thrower's pruning tips & advice
Now I regret giving them away to my eldest daughter as she & her fellah split up a few months afterwards & they all disappeared .
You could do worse and see if any are on Amazon second hand or eBay ,
Cherry trees are surface root feeders ,, On some of our cherries I put kerb stones in a 12 foot wide circle . filed them with a mix of manure and light soil then dug a three foot deep trench ( with a small excavator ) round the stones severing all the unwanted roots . My son caused me to go that root after he ran a four hour old £390 32 inch deck Mountfield self propelled mower over some roots despite being told don't go in that area ,there are roots that will damage the mower,
One bend blade & bent crank shaft later ... Luckily my pal worked in NDT at a local high spec engineering company . I stripped things down & he showed his apprentices how to straighten and true things up to within a couple of microns , t'was a beautiful mower after re-assembly
Some fruit trees ought to only be pruned in summer You can cut the crown of a tree to reduce height and turn the lower branches to spider legs that are low enough to walk under and pick hanging fruits .. good for apple trees.
Our Pershore egg plum benefitted tremendously from two brickies barrows of manure round their base area, so much we had to support a lot of branches ton 3x3 old joists hat grew so many plums they branches were in danger of snapping off . A lot were given to work collogues , made into jams , pressure canned and frozen mush as well as 45gallons of very potent wine .
If I were to need to do such care again , I'd do a few internet searches for the likes of the 1950's & 60's Percy Thrower's pruning tips & advice
Onoff
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This year is dismal for ripening as such , we are almost two month behind normal ( I is there such a thing as normal in gardening ). Take most of the leaves off above & below all decent sized toms , but do leave a few on for photosynthesis, pinch out the growing tips to force the nutrients to go into the fruit rather than unwanted leaf growth .Has anyone got problems with Tomatoes not turning red? I have loads of fruit on them but very very few are ripe yet.
Removing most of the leaves also allows the toms to get maximum sun . I have al old metalized roller blind ( ex LIDL freezer refurbishment project ) just inside of my north greenhouse wall to reflect a tremendous amount UV & warmth into the glasshouse .
White painted walls can do the same .
Carefully snip oranging toms off without brusing them or damaging the other fruitstems as it's so easy to rub across a stem and start blight off . Put the cut off toms in a drawer with a couple of green banana in a warm room , the gas given off by the ripening nanas ripens the toms and the gas given off by the toms ripens the narnas. ( Back inthe 1990's Geest industries in Spalding used to have acres of ripening sheds where they did this complimentary ripening of fruits & veg.
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I'm almost 74 , my birth certificate is running out faster than I want , a book on your book case does not run out .
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When you prune correctly you allow more sunlight into the leaves & fruits plus you don't over burden the tree with too many branches and small low quality fruits .
Out in East Anglia 1988 to 2004 I listened to quite a few apple orchard farmers who they reckoned their tree had far too much blossom so would be pruning hard to reduce the burden on the tree the next year.
Out in East Anglia 1988 to 2004 I listened to quite a few apple orchard farmers who they reckoned their tree had far too much blossom so would be pruning hard to reduce the burden on the tree the next year.
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Apple tree 1, it fell, blew over years ago but somehow survived:
Then apple trees 3 & 4:
(Apple 2 not shown but the same as 3).
Behind apple tree 4 is the plum with the steps leant against it. Fig tree to the left slowly enveloping the shed:
Better view of the fig tree:
Apple number 5, the best tasting one:
The cherry:
https://flic.kr/p/2q9MSU7
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I’ve just rehashed the Paludarium, the fish and most of the shrimp are in an aquarium, was 30% water, Will do more with it in winter.
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I could do the prinkng and removal for you if you like.
Any time you top a tree, or prune for that matter, it will cause a decay pocket to eventually form but fruits seem more resistance to it than most. Trees do not heal, they only callous over or, wall off a wound, unless the damaged area is very young.
Anyway next amazon I need to get some cannabis farm style grow lights for Autumn when I put the mango saplings indoors.
Any time you top a tree, or prune for that matter, it will cause a decay pocket to eventually form but fruits seem more resistance to it than most. Trees do not heal, they only callous over or, wall off a wound, unless the damaged area is very young.
Anyway next amazon I need to get some cannabis farm style grow lights for Autumn when I put the mango saplings indoors.
I have not even getting many turning even slightly orange.
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I have had two massive Ukrainian toms out of the glass house ,one fell to the floor ( about 2,5 inches in dia) and the other 3 inches in diameter got picked yesterday morning . There are some outside plants with slowly turning orange toms on them. I'll give them another week or so & then banana drawer them if they are still needing to ripen .I have not even getting many turning even slightly orange.
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Don't you paint a sealer paste on the cuts to prevent rot ?
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Graft & seal in new apple scion's on the tree boles fairly low down ,then when they're well established cut the top old stuff down ,
By grafting properly you can have scions /branches of apples from several different varieties on the same root stock , handy if you don't have a lot of land but need the varieties for pollination. Where I had the small mammal farm the old cankered out of condition Bramley cooking apple tree had Greeves and Russets grafted on by me and the other two trees done similarly once I'd revitalised the Bramley by digging in several barrowloads of byre muck and laying a bed of spent mushroom compost on the surface soil around it . The canker disappeared entirely after I cut out the majority of the cankered limbs .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjdkFrDvHBo
This is for scion to scion , on a bole it's just as easy peel a scion sized strip back , make a v point on the sicon and slip in the peeled back bit , then tape it up and tape the scion to the tree to stop it being rocked free intyhe wind ,
If you cut the tree down to a 18 inch high stump you insert scions around the cut off in a similar manner and paint the cut with a sealer .
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No, it was once common practise but it was no better than leaving it open plus it prevents growth from eventually callousing over. I did buy a pot and tried it on a couple cuts of a neighbours tree with the rest left open. It will be interesting to compare over time.
There is a method I would like to try which is when removing a limb, to take the cambium layer off and graft that over a cut, essentially sealing it in a natural way and greatly reducing the open time. However it may be time consuming and delicate. It would probably require a flush cut (bad) for the graft to sit properly. If the graft takes, all is good. If it doesnt and decay sets in, a flush cut removes the barrier that would otherwise stop decay moving down the trunk.
