How to Plant Apple Trees
Advice on how to plant apple trees with helpful pictures at each stage. Apple trees prefer full sun, although they will tolerate some shade. Pick a position that will not become water-logged, and that is not in a "frost pocket" (a low-lying [... more]
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Crab apple
The crab apple grows singly, sometimes woods will only have one tree. It is found throughout Europe and Asia Minor and can be easily confused with domestic apple trees which have 'escaped' from cultivation and become naturalised. [... more]
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Winter Moth detection and treatment
The winter moth (Operophtera brumata) will leave it's calling card on your apple tree in the form of numerous holes in the leaves - it weakens the tree and leaves it open to other diseases. The caterpillar stage of the winter moth feeds on the ... [... more]
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Bitter Pit, identify, treatment and cure
Bitter Pit is a disease which affects the fruits of apple trees. We show you how to identify it and how to treat it. Bitter Pit is a disease of apple trees. It is caused by a chemical imbalance in the tree, either a shortage of calcium or too ... [... more]
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How To Prune Apple Trees - page 6
A cordon is a single stem tree with pruned side shoots (known as fruiting spurs). The tree is planted at an angle of 45 degrees to restrict its size and ensure that it produces apples early in its life. They are relatively easy to prune and ... [... more]
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Apple Trees
The key to growing an apple tree in your garden is to pick one which will grow to the correct size and produce fruit with the taste to suit you. It's quite possible to end up with an apple tree of huge proportions in a small garden producing ... [... more]
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Apple Tree Rootstock
Apple Tree roostocks explained. Help in choosing the correct one for your garden. Apple trees are extremely adaptable and can be grown in a variety of shapes. The key factor is the space you have available in your garden. The principal shapes ... [... more]
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Apple Tree Pruning
Instructions and pictures on how to prune apple tree. Lots of helpful explained in simple terms. This article deals with pruning of bush trees (all rootstocks are pruned in the same manner) and cordons. First, fruit is produced from shoots which ... [... more]
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Sarah Addison Allen
Sarah Addison lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she is at work on her next novel. In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very ... [... more]
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Peter Rankin
John William Smith - barely more than a boy - clears land, builds a one-room house, plants three apple trees, then sits down to sip his tea and watch the sunset. He has everything a... Making Room Joanne Taylor Peter Rankin [... more]
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Roberta Miller
Chipmunk lives under the apple tree, in a burrow. He likes to eat cake and pick daffodils. This cheerful book features appealing animal characters, bright artwork in Scarry's early painterly style, and simple sentences that teach the ... [... more]
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Plant an espalier apple tree
How to grow your own fruit with this attractive, space-saving method. All you need is a sunny fence or wall. Perfect for the small garden, an espalier tree has branches trained horizontally on either side of the stem to make a compact, but ... [... more]
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