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Seeking advice on pruning these young apple trees
On 29/08/2014 16:20, Ophelia wrote:
"Spider" wrote in message ... On 28/08/2014 10:10, Ophelia wrote: "JD" wrote in message ... Spider wrote in : When you do start pruning, you first need to cut out the three 'Ds': dead, dying and diseased growth. Then any crossing growth, that is, any inward-growing branches which spoil the shape of the tree and also increase the possibilty of fungal disease due to restricting air movement. Also cut out any branch which rubs on another and may cause wounding, which will subsequently let in disease. The other useful thing you could do is drop heavy hints for a good pruning guide for Christmas. I recommend the RHS Pruning & Training guide by Christopher Brickell & David Joyce. It's a Dorling Kindersley publication, ISBN 1-4053-0073-6. Hope that helps a bit. It helps massively. Thank you, Spider! Apologies for the delayed reply. Your advice told be a lot that I hadn't managed to find elswhere. Thank you again! Spider should write a book! I would buy it Bless you for saying that, Ophelia, but I don't think it would fly off the shelves. Anyway, whichever gremlin is behind GB and stealing URG's knowledge is already writing it :~(. Oh I noticed that my book has been despatched but ... Your estimated delivery date is: Saturday, August 30, 2014 - Thursday, September 11, 2014 Fingers crossed it comes faster than September What is 'GB'? Are you saying someone is writing a book with knowledge gained from the posters here?? Sorry .. GB is Garden Banter .. and I'm sure someone's making very good use of Urglers' work. I meant to say 'probably' writing, but the fingers couldn't find the keys ;~). -- Spider. On high ground in SE London gardening on heavy clay |
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