Another update on Mason Bees – May 2023
One of the most important requirements for a Mason Bee is mud !! Where we are situated it is not
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Grafting Large Diameter Asian Pear Scions – May 2023
We had the need to graft a relatively large diameter scion of an ‘Asian Pear – Okusankchi’. The scion was
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Pot Grown Potatoes – 2023
It seems to be all the rage about grown pot grown potatoes. As we have never done this, we thought
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Three variety Cherry Tree – May 2023
This sort of graft we have performed a number of times with apples, but we have not done it with
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Graft Failure – May 2023
We occasionally have graft failures, normally they are due to 3rd parties, like pigeons, crows, wind, dog etc etc. But
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Mason Bees – Update May 2023
It was very worrying here this year, no bees were coming out of there cocoons. We did think they were
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Propagation of woody plants from prepared leaf cutings
For further reading please refer to https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190246567A1/en Please refer to upto date chemical data and Heath and Safety protocols. We
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Dimethyl sulfoxide which stimulates vegetative growth
Dimethyl sulfoxide which stimulates vegetative growth text is an extract from https://patents.google.com/patent/US3361555A/en Please refer to upto date chemical data and
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Golden Delicious Apple – Trialing – Starting March 2023
Over the last few years, purely by accident, we acquired some apple varieties that by description sounded really nice. There
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Mantis Tiller Update – October 2022
Mantis Tiller Update – October 2022 As an additional detail noticed, but not logged on our previous blog for the
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