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Pruning apples this summer? Get top tips
If you’ve got apple trees, don’t forget to prune them in the summer to regulate new growth on your plants and prevent diseases.
With some assistance from our Friend at BBC Gardeners ’ World Magazine , we ’ve got some top tips below to help you clip in the summer months .
What ’s more , there ’ll be plenty of grow your own advice and bakshis at the BBC Gardeners ’ World Autumn Fair from 1 - 3 September at Audley End House & Gardens , Essex . On the Let ’s Grow Stage , you ’ll encounter be able-bodied to make the most of your apple harvest with Sara Ward . Find out how to press apples for succus and cider , and utilise the pulp magazine for jelly and wine .
Tips for summer pruning
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Avoid pruning fruiting goad on your Malus pumila tree diagram . These spurs are often short and stubby with nearly spaced leaves . If your fruiting spurs are bunch up too closley together , cut away the old branches to open up the branches and allow better breeze circulation .
Remove stems that clearly must go : anything dead , diseased or damage , and any good shoots develop above the top tier of branches .
shoot that will need pruning are produced from the primary branches and will have been produced this year . Cut these back to within three to four leaves of last year ’s increment . The good shoots should be around 18 - 23 thousand long .
Cut just above a folio joint , at an slant away from it . reduce all side shoots and leave unpruned ones where needed to extend the main fabric of the tree . Where shoots have build up from laterals that were cut back last yr , cut this year ’s growth back to one foliage .
Prune your apple tree with the target of spacing the knobbly fruiting spurs around 10 cm asunder to avoid overcrowded spurs and allowing better air menses to the plant .
Do n’t overleap the Let ’s mature Stage at the BBC Gardeners ’ World Autumn Fair where you ’ll find be capable to make the most of your Malus pumila harvesting with Sara Ward . chance out how to urge on apples for succus and cyder , and employ the pulp for jelly and wine .
Find out more about the Let’s Grow Stage
Find out what’s on at the Autumn Fair
New year , fresh garden , newfangled trends !
We ’re through the garden gate into 2023 , with a legion of gardening trends blooming throughout the country . Fromhouse plantsreaching dizzying tiptop of popularity , to the semblance of the twelvemonth ‘ Viva Magenta’,read on for our full listing of trend .
To get up closelipped and personal with fresh garden brainchild , unexampled plants , the late gardening kit and more , link us in 2023 .
Colour of the Year 2023
Hand - picked by Pantone , the color of the twelvemonth has been named as ‘ Viva Magenta .
Pantone describe the vividness as‘brave and fearless , and a pulsating color whose exuberance push a joyous and optimistic solemnisation , writing a unexampled narration . ’
Discover a world of colour and scent in the stunningFloral Marquee , bursting with award - pull ahead nursery and display .
Sustainable gardening
Whilst your garden might seem to already be very green , it can always be greener !
Discover agency you’re able to make horticulture more sustainable , like upcycling vulgar items to make stylish features . What was a pallet , hessian bags , bits of pipe , and Sn can , could become a planter , grow bags , water features , and wildlife habitat .
Be inspired by the BBC Gardeners ’ World Magazine newspaper column squad as they ’re joined by experts to give tips and advice .
Grow your own food
Looking to go from dirt to supper this yr ? Get brilliant advice from the National Allotment Society at the event .
Peat-free gardening
Learn about the in style peat - free compost from shower who can offer up face - to - face advice .
Indoor gardening
Foliage does n’t just go alfresco – bring nature indoors and be exhort by the Houseplant Hub .
Mindful gardening
Beautiful Borders returns with this year ’s radical ‘ My Garden Escape ’ to give you distance savvy ideas .
Gardening on a budget
detect unlike ways you may let your garden bloom under a tight budget , with advice from expert gardeners .
Fermented foods
Visit the BBC Good Food Summer Show ( with costless entrance with your tag ! ) and chance on the latest foodie trends .
Feeling enliven ? Find out what else is happening at BBC Gardeners ’ World subsist this June !
