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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Pyrus communis 'Conference'
Pears flower two to four weeks earlier than apples and need slightly warmer conditions. They are very ornamental in flower, their branches often buried under a froth of white blossom. All pears are grafted on rootstocks which affect their size ... [... 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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Propagate a Japanese Maple Tree
Japanese Maple Trees are not easy to propagate. Commercially they are normally grafted on to a strong growing rootstock and there are a couple of reasons for this. Firstly, many varieties are not strong growing trees and would produce weak trees ... [... 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]
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Sauerkraut 2
First cut it into wedges and then remove the rootstock and slice it very thin. Use a stainless steel bucket, a large glass pot or a glazed, leadfree pot you also need a cloth mesh or thin cotton cloth, a weight for example a can filled with water ... [... more]
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Malus domestica 'Bramley's Seedling'
Cooking apples tolerate heavier, wetter soils than dessert varieties, and are well worth growing for winter use from store. Varieties are grafted on rootstocks which affect the size and vigour of the tree, and may be trained in a number of ... [... more]
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Prunus avium 'Napoleon'
Producing a good crop of reddish-yellow edible cherries, it can be grown on three different rootstocks, giving different heights to approximately 3m (10ft) high, 5m (15ft), or 6-9m (20-30ft), depending on your soil. The early spring blossom is ... [... more]
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Prunus domestica 'Heron'
Not widely sold but well worth tracking down for its decent crop of bluish-purple summer fruit. Like all plums, 'Heron' can be grown on different rootstocks depending on what height and shape you want, but the the most common garden kinds are ... [... more]
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Prunus cerasus 'Morello'
A fantastic, dark red acid cherry that is ideal for cooking. Cherries grow into small or medium-sized trees although, if grafted on a semi-dwarfing rootstock such as 'Colt', they may be grown as fans on garden walls or as dwarf pyramids, both of ... [... more]
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How to Propagate roses - page 6
Commercially almost all roses are propagated by budding. This takes a large degree of skill and involves buying rootstocks. For this reason most amateur gardeners who propagate roses, do so by using cuttings. This is the easiest way to propagate ... [... more]
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