On 16/03/17 00:53, MaxDread wrote:


Thanks for the comments and advice. I've asked on some other forums, and
been reading and watching videos. There's plenty to think about! It's
quite a tricky topic for a newcomer as people seem to approach it in
such vastly different ways, both in terms of the finer details and the
major ones such as whether to even prune or not!

Don't forget that no matter how much time and effort you spend on the
tree it will do what it wants to do. That usually means alternate good
and poor cropping years. And in the good cropping years you will find
you won't know what to do with the vast surplus of fruit you will get.
In the end I stuck bags of apples outside on a table and left a notice
telling passers by to just take what they wanted!

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Jeff