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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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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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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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 it's 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 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 (next page). First, fruit is produced from ... [... 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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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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Fruit Tree Garden Collection
 Plant your own orchard with this great collection of quality fruit trees. Braeburn apple tree: Plant in a warm sunny spot The top grower grade bare-root feathered maiden trees have been grafted on to M9 rootstock to provide a semi-dwarf habit whi [... more]
£45.00
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Jonagold Apple Tree
Bred in The USA Jonagold is a cross between the much loved sweet flavoured Golden Delicious and a variety called Jonathon which is renowned for its tart zingy flavour. The marriage of these two varieties has produced large fruits which are crisp sweet and [... more]
£13.00
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Braeburn Apple Tree
Bred in New Zealand in the 1950's this stunning self-fertile variety has taken the world by storm and is now deservedly the most popular apple sold in the UK supermarkets today.It consistently produces bountiful crops of aromatic juicy-sweet fruits. Plant [... more]
£13.00
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Bramley Apple Tree
Raised from a single seed by Mary Ann Brailsford in 1809 the worlds favourite cooking apple has stood the test of time. The fruits have the perfect acidic flavour required for use in the kitchen and the flesh becomes incredibly light and fluffy when cooke [... more]
£13.00
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