pruning heritage trees

This weekend join me and Sue, Brian and Wayne at the community gardens, and learn first hand from experienced orchardists how to prune, and help lick our heritage fruit trees into shape. Our heritage apple walk was planted out in the mid 90’s, soon accompanied by quinces cherries and plums, you wont find these varieties in the shops so help keep this precious resource of cool climate fruits healthy for future generations to enjoy.  Winter is a great time to take stock of trees, look at their shape and how the branches form and relate to one another. Being deciduous the branches are bereft of leaves clearly revealing their structure. Come along, learn a new skill, or flex your pruning muscles, and help these fabulous fruit trees be productive and bear fruit for the years to come.  Find out more at bmfruitandnuttreenetwork.blogspot.com

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