Pre leaf fall Fungicide application to Peaches etc
Today (12th November 2014) was one of the few days this time of the year that was not raining and
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Fruit and Nut growing experiences (trials and tribulations)
The mice or rabbits are at it again this year – Autumn 2014
When you think you have solved the problem. You turn your back and you find the mice have been at
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Black Walnuts (Juglans Nigra) are ripe – End October 2014
This year it has been a massive crop of Black Walnuts (Juglans Nigra). Its now the end of October and
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Walnut (Juglans Regia) – Red Danube
The Red Danube Walnut (syns Rouge de la Donan, Rode Donau) comes from southern Germany, the breed gets its name
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Autumn Pre leaf fall – Fungicide application
Now is the time to apply a pre leaf fall fungicide application, to peaches, nectarines and plums, in fact all
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Old Grape vine saved – I hope
As if only by luck I happened to visit an elderly lady, on the very day a guy was digging
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Easy way of planting large quantities of trees.
If you have a large quantity of trees to plant, you have got to think of a quicker method than
Continue readingBotrytis the blight of Greenhouse Crops
Botrytis cinerea is one of the most common fungal disease of greenhouse crops. The disease is often referred to as
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Apple – Rouget Plouer (updated photo)
A native of the town namesake, grown in the northeast of Cotes d’Armor and the surrounding communities of Ille-et-Vilaine The
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Apple – Francis Thorrington
Raised in Essex by F.W. Thorrington. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1925. Fruits have firm, fine,
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