Final Outcome – Pot grown Potatoes – June 2023
This is a final update on this years ‘Pot Grown New Potatoes’ and our original blog entry at https://www.gb-online.co.uk/gb-wordpress/pot-grown-potatoes-2023/ We
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Pocket Plum (Taphrina pruni) fungal pathogen of Blackthorn – June 2023
I was inspecting this years possible crop of sloes, hoping to make some sloe gin in Autumn, and I came
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Cantharis Nigricans (soldier beetle) – late May 2023
Whilst we were looking for green weevils and aphids in our orchard we came across this unusual beetle. We have
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Update on Mistletoe Grafting – May 2023
We have an update here on an apple tree that was grafted with scions already with mistletoe (latin name Viscum
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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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