What's new, what's growing, what we're learning. Updates, guides and stories for people who take their garden seriously.
Seed never comes true. How to preserve old farm varieties and grow several varieties on one tree with budding in late summer and whip grafting in winter.
GiSelA rootstocks finally make the sweet cherry pickable, and with the right pollinator it bears early. How to plan rootstock, pollination group and spot.
All four are plums, yet shape, freestone quality and flavour tell them apart. How to recognise Zwetschge, plum, mirabelle and greengage and plant the right one.
An airy crown is the best prevention against brown rot. How to plant and prune Zwetschge and plum correctly, without risking gummosis.
Not the winter but the early blossom is the apricot's risk. With a warm wall, a late-flowering variety and fleece on the frost night, the harvest succeeds here too.
Peach and nectarine bear only on the one-year-old shoot. Why you prune boldly, how the replacement spur works and when the best pruning time is.
Pears want warmth, flower early and almost always need a pollinator. How to solve the pear puzzle of spot, quince rootstock and a matching second variety.
Planted bare-root in the dormant season, almost any fruit tree establishes better than container stock. How to get spot, planting depth and the planting cut right, step by step.
It is not the variety that sets your fruit tree's size, but the rootstock. What M9, MM106 and seedling mean, and how to choose the right one when buying.
