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2019 DNA Testing – Fruit Tree Leaves sent off today.

Coming to the end of June is the last time for sending in fruit tree leaf samples for DNA Analysis.

This is a view of the orchard mainly planted 5 years or so ago Further on from the previous plantings

Another orchard visit whilst traveling through Cornwall and Devon. This time it is Dartmouth (Devon) Community Orchard we are visiting.

I thought I had better update my previous message with regards to my rabbit problems in my orchard. The rabbit

I thought I had managed to ring fence my orchard against rabbits. But I was always a bit suspicious when

Its one of them jobs that I wish I had done, before I had laid out our orchard over 20

Right – I have the rabbit guards on all the trees, I have mouse bait in feeders, I have squirrel

A bitter late December 2014 winters day. A northerly wind blows the smoke from the Rugby Cement works chimney. Went

National Trust Killerton, Devon is one of their flagship properties. There are some very ancient Sweet Chestnuts (Castenea), producing a

An off the cuff visit to Cockington, happened to be on the same day as the ‘Apple Day’. We was