Gardening: pruning & orchard management courses

Find pruning and orchard management courses across the UK. Learn how to create and maintain fruit orchards; when to plant, prune and how to take care of your trees and plants to get maximum yield or crop.

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Silver AWARD

Apple tree pruning - winter

In-person course

East Sussex - Next course on 23rd January 2021

£55

Learn how to restore and maintain trees, both apples and pears, that have got away. The aim of winter pruning is to establish the basic structure of the tree, reduce overcrowding, encourage it to make new growth in a controlled way and produce fewer, larger fruit from healthier, well pruned trees. The course will be at Bore Place and start with an examination of old and overgrown trees to learn how to develop a pruning “road map” to get matters back under control. These trees will then be compared with...

Gold AWARD

Living Willow Harlequin trees

In-person course

Surrey - Next course on 9th January 2021

£45

This course runs in February and March and will next be available in 2021. Once settled in and the journey to get here forgotten, we begin the day learning about willow; how it is grown and prepared for living willow projects. You are supplied with a pot and compost and the making starts with techniques to create your own living willow harlequin tree.

Orchard pruning & maintenance

In-person course

Wiltshire - Next course on 7th November 2020

£45

Spend the day in our orchard and woodland, learning to identify and maintain fruit trees for optimum production Join Richard Cripps for a presentation which will cover fruit tree identification, tool selection, visual health checks, feeding fruit trees, mowing regimes and recognising problems. Followed by a practical session in the orchard. This reserve can be hard to find, please visit out website for more information on directions and leave with plenty of time.

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