Now normally by this time of year I’m enjoying the first fresh fruit of the season (if you don’t count rhubarb, which is technically a vegetable, and forced strawberries, which are cheating). But this year my gooseberries, growing along a fence by the path that leads down the garden, have been puzzlingly conspicuous by their [...]
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Playing gooseberry
Posted in Fruit, Pruning, tagged cordon gooseberries, Fruit, gooseberries, summer pruning, training on June 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Seeing the trees for the wood
Posted in Fruit, Pruning, tagged apples, chickens, time management on December 13, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Oh dear. This is a bit of my garden not many people get to see. Well, nobody, actually, if I can help it. It’s my group – orchard is perhaps too optimistic a word – of four apple trees, two Cox’s Orange Pippins and two Bramley’s Seedlings in the chicken run at the bottom, and [...]
The cutting edge
Posted in Propagation, Pruning, tagged blackcurrants, cuttings, Fruit, techniques on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While I was pruning my blackcurrants the other week I spotted some handsome-looking young side branches. As so often happens at this time of year when I’m just itching to get growing something, they’ve made me come over all propagational. Any time from autumn to spring is good for hardwood cuttings, and it’s dead easy. I find [...]
Currant affairs
Posted in Fruit, Pruning, tagged blackcurrants, weather, winter on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
With half my plot all but under water what with torrential rain and flash floods in the last couple of weeks, and the other half under sheets of black plastic (partly in an optimistic attempt to keep out said flash floods), I can no longer sink a spade into my soil without hearing the dreary [...]
Goosie goosie gander
Posted in Fruit, Pruning, tagged gooseberries, heritage varieties on August 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I adore gooseberries. They’re such a very British berry. I’ve never found them in any other country, yet there’s nothing that quite compares with that mouthwateringly tangy burst of flavour in early summer, so welcome weeks before any other fruit is around. So this spring I indulged myself to the max and bought four different varieties [...]
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