A quick prune of the upward shoots on your espalier keeps things fruitful and promotes fresh shoots. Go along each branch and reduce long upward shoots back to 2 or 3 buds. How simple is that. Where there is a cluster of shoots, thin them out leaving about 20cm between each one. Completely remove the […]
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How To Prune Raspberries
By | LastUpdated June 30, 2024
For hearty crops of big berries – prune your raspberries! An annual prune makes the wickedest difference to harvest and health – check out those Clutha raspberries above! And as long as your berry patch isn’t scary wild, its a quick job on a sunny winters day. Summer fruiters + autumn fruiters There are two […]
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Smart Edge Design Saves You Work!
By | LastUpdated November 1, 2023
This would be an easy post to skip past – the edge? what edge?! And yet its one of those foundational concepts that if you adopt, can save you loads of work and increase the fertility and life in your soils by miles. Planting up the outside edge of your vegie patch brings benefits galore, […]
