Prunus Shot Hole
This year there seems to be a large amount of ‘Prunus Shot Hole’ (Wilsonomyces carpophilus) about. This can affect any
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Category: Fruit and Nut growing experiences
Fruit and Nut growing experiences (trials and tribulations)
Cherries Splitting – Erratic Watering
Its been a bad year this year with certain varieties beginning to ripen, and then due to erratic watering from
Continue readingLast frost of the winter ?? 1st and 2nd May 2014
It really went down cold for the last few nights. After way above average temperatures for the past few weeks
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2014 attempt at trying to ascertain the Walnut tree problems.
This years lures have been lifted high into the walnut canopy (28th April) and will be checked weekly.
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Emptying the Grafting Bins
Just a quick photo to illustrate what the grafted trees are like when they come out of the grafting bins.
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Now the weather is warming up and its April showers – Watch out for Slugs.
There is tender green shoots now growing, due to the warming weather and the April showers. So be on your
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Bumper Apricot crop this year
As we have had virtually no frosts this year, its looking like its going to be a bumper apricot crop
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Do I have a mouse problem ?
In feeding my mice with bait in hopper style feeders. I think my mice are very eager to be fed
Continue reading2014 Flowering times (updated 25th April 2014)
This is just a list of actual flowering / pollination times for 2014. This year has been an early year,
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What do think I am doing here ??
Its the end of March 2014, and we have had a very mild winter. No snow, hardly any frost, but
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