Tag: fruit
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Pruning
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PD&D: pests, diseases and disorders
As part of my coursework for the certificate, I had to write a Pest and Disease project. I researched 15 of the most common pests (vertebrates and invertebrates that feed, inhabit or otherwise live off plants, damaging or killing them) and diseases (caused by microorganisms such as fungi, viruses and bacteria), choosing ones that I…
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Three Counties Orchard Conference
As my dissertation for this year’s traineeship will be on orchards, my colleagues suggested I attend the Three Counties Orchard Conference with them, and a very interesting day it was as a range of stakeholders in top fruit production, from conservation to commercial, presented to us. An introduction to the UK orchard scene by John…
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10 apples or so a day: keeps the doctor away?
After all the picking, and the rehearsal in London earlier in the month, the last six days have been full-on on apples at the Wisley Taste of Autumn Festival and one can get enough of apples, I tell you! Produce display for Wisley Taste of Autumn After a day of set up that involved me checking stored crates of…
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Young apple trees, old apple trees
The London Orchard Project gave me the opportunity to spend another two lovely days pruning. Yesterday, we were in Fryent Park, taking care of a young orchard that had never been pruned before and whose trees required formative pruning. It was a lovely sunny day, and a rather big team was set loose on a…
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What a worthwhile pursuit to restore an orchard!
It was Twitter that brought that to my attention: volunteers required for an orchard restoration project. Restoring an orchards is such a worthwhile project. Appeals against the disappearance of the traditional British orchard have gone on for a while now, the NT and Natural England have long campaigned to save orchards as a matter of…
About Me
M.Paola Andreoni
I got the first allotment in 2007 (in the UK) and started growing my own food for the first time. Learning as I went along was not enough, so I studied some horticulture. I am striving to abide by organic principles. Brexit gave me a new life in the Netherlands, and two new plots by a nature reserve.
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