Fruit & Veg Maintenance
(Planting and care of top fruit, soft fruit and vegetables in the orchard)
Fruit growing - general information: [PDF] [source DOC]
Top Fruit Maintenance
- Apples, pollination and tree care calendar: [PDF] [source DOC]
- A Brief Guide To Pruning Top Fruit (new version for 2023): [PDF]
- Apples and pears - winter pruning: RHS Detailed Guidance
- Pruning plums (April or July): RHS Detailed Guidance
- A Few Thoughts On Plum Pruning: [PDF]
- Planting and mulching: [PDF] [source DOC]
- Pears, medlars, quinces and blackcurrants: [PDF] [source DOC]
- Thinning Fruit: RHS Guidance Page (perhaps a bit drastic?)
Soft Fruit Maintenance
- Pruning and Maintaining Soft fruit: [PDF] [source DOCX]
- Pruning Soft Fruit (detailed notes by type): [PDF] [source DOCX]
- Cane fruit (raspberries, blackberries): [PDF] [source DOC]
- Currants… gooseberries and redcurrants: [PDF] [source DOC]
- Pruning Grapes (Mar 2015): [PDF] [source DOC]
- Pruning a Fig Tree (2023): [PDF]
- When to prune soft fruit (Which soft fruit to prune, by month Sept-June): [PDF] [source DOC]
Vegetables
- Brassicas: [PDF] [source DOC]
- Legumes: [PDF] [source DOC]
- Onion family - alliums: [PDF] [source DOC]
- Potatoes: [PDF] [source DOC]
- Root vegetables: [PDF] [source DOC]
- Salad vegetables: [PDF] [source DOC]
- Lists of Veg to sow and plant indoors/outdoors in March: [PDF] [source DOC]