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I have a four year old cooking apple tree and I came home from holidays to find it had fallen over. It had been leaning. The trunk has split almost all the way through just above the graft. Can this tree be saved? What's the best plan of action? It has a good amount of crop on it and the leaves are still green. I was only away for five days so it hasn't been down for too long. Any advice.
my minature apple tree in pot is not doing well
We planted an orchard of 27 trees, 5 years ago with a variety of native old Irish varieties native to the West of Ireland sourced from the Irish seed savers. The trees look well have plenty of leaves, have been pruned and fed, however apart from a small number of tiny apples on two of the trees, we would have expected to have apples by now. Last year in an effort to aid pollination we got two bee hives. Some leaves have brown marks on them, but reading other posts this appears to be wind scorching similar to marks on a lot of other trees in our garden. Are we doing something incorrect and is there anything we could do to encourage fruit next year? Also can you recommend a book for the back yard Irish orchard, any books we have found all refer to the UK and not specifically to Ireland and our unique climate?
My apple tree Discovery usually has a good apple crop and again this year has lots of apples. However they seem to be splitting/cracking. Is this a virus or weather- related or pest-related?The other tree Elstar's apples are not affected.I recently had to cut down a Bramley apple tree badly affected by canker and prune some of Discovery's branches that were also affected- are the cracks canker related? Would appreciate advice as the apples are lovely to eat and I don't want to lose the crop!
This young apple tree's trunk looks pretty sick, but it still has green leaves - is it apple canker? There are other apple, cherry and plum trees nearby - should i remove the tree, roots and all? and will i be able to plant another fruit tree in that location. Thanks for your advice.
I was given a cooking apple tree which had its main trunk broken in the garden centre...it's always fruited v well but i would like to raise its canopy up...can i cut off the bottom branches now in july even though they have fruit or should i let them ripen, harvest them and do it later in the year?
I am just beginning to make a garden after building-work destroyed all of our previous garden. I would like to grow some fruit or vegetables to encourage the interest of my kids. The garden is north facing but long. I will need to buy soil or peat or some mixture. What is the best combination?
We have an apple tree that is about 13 years old which has given us great crops of delicious apples for the last few years, but in the last few weeks the leaves have been turning a browny colour then falling off, it looks like Autumn and now the new baby apples are falling off.we have 3 other apple trees that are ok.Can you help me please, can anything be done?
We bought 2 pears Conference and Williams Bon Chretien ...both are dwarf, also apple (Discovery) and a James grieve. we got these about 2 months ago and we were advised in garden centre not to remove them from the pots as they were newly potted. when we took them home we tied the pots to posts and wattered them and kept an eye on them. In the last couple of weeks i notice some leaves brown. I took them off but today i notice one of the trees is almost all brown on the william bon. can u tell me what could of happened... barks seem all intact. could it be the wind? as they are a bit exposed. They all have varying degrees of brown leaves
Have noticed we now have brown leaves on all our apple trees ( old cottage trees and new trees) Is there a blight that has blown through or is it wind burn due to the horrendous winds we have had ? They are beginning to look like they are dying
On most of the apple trees i have (15 )the leaves are turning brown like they do in late summer what is going wrong or is there anything i can do to stop this?
Over the past week i have noticed all my apple trees ,cox and bramley, along with pear trees and its beginning with the plum trees, have got brown leaves. At first i thought it was scaB and picked those affected leaves off, but now i notice one tree is full of brown leaves-its not scab anymore. We have had enough water over the days so i know its not drought. Rabbits did attack the bark during the winter but we stopped it and protected them and thought they were growing fine, we even had blossoms on all of them until a few weeks ago. is there a cure? I wanted to go organic but will try anything just to save them.
Two years ago I transplanted a Coronet apple tree from a pot directly into the garden. While it has flowered successfully since no apples appeared last year and I have discovered that the flowered buds are falling off now. Before it was transplanted I had successive harvests of apples. What do you think might be the problem? Would root rock cause this to happen as try as I might it doesn't want to stay still!!
I have a dwarf apple tree (winston i think) and the leaves look like they have 2 different problems. One of the problems is that the leaves have a white powder on them, the other problem is brown spots(I put a pic of this). My gooseberries have the same problems. What is the best way to combat it? is it possible to do it organically and with stuff from the kitchen press.......? Last question: Last year my gooseberries got devoured from little green caterpillars, they are back again this year. Any advise? Thanks in advance
my apple tree was covered in flowers a week ago. now all flowers are gone and leaves are drooping. what could be the cause of this problem? and what solution do you have for this problem if any? note this apple tree stands alone and does it need a companion apple tree?
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