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I have two Bramley Seedling trees which I planted as year olds last November, I also planted 1 Elstar and a James Grieve beside them. Do you think the Bramleys will pollinate with the other two oris there a better pollinator I could plant as well. I have the space.
Many apples on my 35 year old Bramley tree are rotten. Wonder why?
I have a apple tree 3 fruit its grafted i planted it too near a wall ,and i would like to move to a more suitable position its 5years old .,when is the most approprate time to do this?
is it ok to prune an apple tree and when is the best time hasnt given any fruit yet only sown two years
Is there easy way of know when my eating apple tree fruit is ripe? Im sick of taking one every few days to taste and it not ready im wasteing fruit! An my cooking apple tree the fruit when stewed tastes too acid and looks like custard when stewed help?
Wasps have taken a great liking to my apples ( Katja and Discovery).I have sprayed them with 'Bug Clear for fruit and veg'.It does'nt appear to be working very well, can you recommend anything else ?
Is there a way to stop bees eating apples off the trees? The bees seem to be busy eating, eating.... We will have no apples if they keep eating..
I have a cooking apple tree in my garden which is there for approx 80 years. There's a huge crop of apples on it but you cannot use them. They look perfect but they are very sour and no amount of sugar can sweeten them.
My son has recently bought a house in Bagnelstown, Co. Carlow. It has a huge garden, with good alkaline soil & some old fruit trees. They are quite wild now, and he wants to plan a new orchard for the future. Could you tell me which varieties would be best, as they have to be ordered soon i.e.of apples, cherries, plums, eating pears.Nothing too high, so the fruit can be picked easily, say 10 feet or so, and what about pollinators? We're really new to this. I would appreciate some help before we order, as it is such a long-term thing.
We are not sure what type of apple trees we are growing but they are young, they are at a max. of 12". There is white fur growing on the leaves, it is not on the bark as suggested in so many other people's blog. Is this a fungus, should I be worried. It doesn't seem to be doing any harm I just don't know what it is?
Coronet apple tree, 5 years old, got great growth and blossoms this year but when the blossoms died away the little fruit buds withered away and fell off? what happened? and how do I remedy this for next year?
I have some woolly aphids on an apple tree. I tried getting a chemical in the local garden centre and was told that Malathion was the only one that would do the trick. But that has been taken off the market. Can you suggest another?
Could you recommend some hardy perennials to plant under apple trees.
3 years ago I purchased a dwarf containerised apple tree with 2 varieties on 1 stem (Cox's pippin and James Grieve). Year 1 produced 25 fruits. It was repotted after that season and produced only 2 fruit last year and 1 this year. It is outside in sheltered patio and has been since purchased. Pot size is 45cm diameter. It is well watered and fed. Garden is south facing.
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