Tom and I have just returned from a great training day in Edinburgh run by the Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace Trust. A group of enthusiastic representatives from several community groups met to find out more about orchards.
We spent quite a time pruning two apple trees, as discussing the merits of each cut with 25 people makes a slow job. I don’t think a commercial grower would get very far if he had a supervising committee watching his efforts. Tom proved overly enthusiastic to lop bits off and eventually had the clippers confiscated! When we get to the stage of pruning our orchard – watch out for Tom and his secateurs... we may not have any trees left!
We also planted 4 apple trees – to make sure we knew how to do it. Tom redeemed himself with his farmer’s digging skills : )
Many thanks to John Hancox of Scottish Orchards for his help and advice!
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