Tag: may

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

We have an update here on an apple tree that was grafted with scions already with mistletoe (latin name Viscum

One of the most important requirements for a Mason Bee is mud !! Where we are situated it is not

We had the need to graft a relatively large diameter scion of an ‘Asian Pear – Okusankchi’. The scion was

This sort of graft we have performed a number of times with apples, but we have not done it with

We occasionally have graft failures, normally they are due to 3rd parties, like pigeons, crows, wind, dog etc etc. But

It was very worrying here this year, no bees were coming out of there cocoons. We did think they were

It was the 3rd May 2011 and we had a late frost, by only a degree or 2. But it