Cultivation

We are currently constructing some pages about planting, growing, pruning & picking your Welsh fruit tree. In the meantime, we hope the following will be of use.

The following 2 links are about the best information you can get that is readily available on the internet:

Growing Apple Trees in the Home Garden
The best site on the web explains how to train a centre leader tree to the most light efficient shape

TRAINING & PRUNING APPLE TREES -
Ecological Agriculture Projects
This is the best site on the web for theory - very technical but well worth the challenge.

PLANTING, TRAINING, PRUNING, PICKING, STORAGE

Ask any 10 orchardists about any of the above and you will get 10 different answers!

Rather than add an eleventh I suggest you read:

THE FRUIT EXPERT by Dr.Hessayon @ £4.95.......a good cheap basic book with very clear diagrams

FRUIT by Harry Baker @ £8.99......A thoroughly comprehensive guide from the RHS with excellent precise line drawings

TRAINING & PRUNING OF APPLE AND PEAR TREES@ $29.95 by CG FORSHEY
available only via the internet. Extremely detailed and academic, it is paraphrased on the web site TRAINING & PRUNING OF APPLE TREES