It's not been ideal conditions for planting trees, really the ground is too wet - but as they say time waits for no man so I decided we...

Thought I'd share a short video I made on the varieties of plum I've settled on this year. Hopefully by having all these differ...

The season for plums in the UK is from mid July until The start of October. These are from a variety of plum types, grown under different c...

Just a short post showing the three types of damsons I have on my trees in the orchard at the moment. From left to right -  "Merryw...

Last week, whilst the boy took a long nap I managed to get down into the orchard to prune some of my trees. They're really putting on s...

Unfortunately it's not here but at my parents farm. I went for the first time in two months on Friday (I know I'm a bad son!) and t...

Over the weekend I managed to get out and prune my orchard.  It didn't take very long as the trees haven't put on much growth. Tr...

I had a phone call from my mum on Monday inviting me to a talk at her gardening club. It was on fruit trees by a very knowledgeable nursery ...

Our own apple trees are still too young to give us much of a crop yet so we're still relying on apples from my parents and from our fri...

My Cordons (see here , here and here for how I planted them) are looking good this year. They've already put on quite a bit of growth...

My "big" order of fruit tree rootstocks has arrived. A big bundle of rootstocks  For me this is quite a big order of 100 M...

This is just an experiment from something I read on the Internet (I say that far too often) so don't try this until I find out if it wo...

This week I've been building a large green oak frame at mum and dads farm so I could use one of their barns to build it in. Everyday I...

Today My mother and I went on a tree grafting course. I've been struggling what to write about the course as, to be honest, it wasn...

It's a good job we haven't got many neighbours. There would have been some twiching of curtains tonight if we had, as I trapes down...