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I have a cooking apple tree which has had curled and dried out looking leaves for the past few years, It also has lines running across the leaves. However i have always had a very good crop of apples. Is there anything i can do to prevent it this year.
The leaves on one of my apple trees goes brown during the summer every year and I wonder if there is anything that I can do now to guard against this happening this year.
Can you please tell me the names of self pollinating fruit trees?
An old friend of mine has an apple tree growing in her garden and each year the apples are attacked by codling moth. Is there any way of preventing this preferably organic . She is talking of cutting it down
Having read your piece on greenfly eggs on apple trees, I decided to inspect my own young apple trees to find that many of them have the greenfly eggs around the buds.Can you recommend a spray for greenfly eggs that would not harm other beneficial insects and predators.I could let nature take its course and see if some predators will sort out the greenfly though this did not work last year and I had to resort to spraying the greenfly.
these are 2 of my 3 apples-this is their 3rd year in the ground(i planted them late summer 2008) had some apples off them last year...they are not dwarf stock but the big old fashioned kind...do they need some pruning and any advice on how much to take off would be very appreciated
I need to clean my trees with something but the shops say winter wash is gone off the market. I get a lot of moss on the trees, is there anything I can do?
I planted an apple tree last year.just wondering when apples will appear
I have some old and very large apple trees, 15 to 20 metres in height. Is it possible to prune these down to a manageable height? It would probably mean cutting large branches and even the upper trunk back to bare timber, with no growth point. Would shoots grow from cuts like this? And what about the fact that I would be removing over half of the crown? Shold I do it over a couple of years?
Two of my apple trees have severe damge caused by rabbits. The cambium has completely gone around the girth up to ten inches high. The older tree is now weeping sap. I know this is bad from reading the literature. 1)Should I put some wrappinrg around them or leave it in the lap of the Gods?. 2) Can I transplant some Sycamore bark around the base.? 3)Whats the chances of survival?
I have a pear and an apple tree on my allotment which is waterlogged. Apart from doing major drainage work on the allotment is there any other sollution to this problem? I am affraid that the trees will get root rot. The allotment is leased from my local council.
I have cleaned around the base of apple and plum trees. Is there anything else I should do at this time of year?
I planted some apple trees at the beginning of October. It is now 24th Oct and one of them has buds that have opened out. I presume the frost will kill the new leaves and I'm concerned that there will be no new buds on the tree in the spring time. Is there anyting I can do?
Why use grease bands on fruit trees? Why are these tree trunks sometimes painted white?
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