Fruit Trees & Bushes
Making Your Own Cider
Can I make cider from eating and cooking apples?Yes, all apples make cider, but the flavours from cider apples are better: most…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Fruit Trees & Bushes
Types of Fruit Tree Rootstock
To graft your own fruit trees, you can buy Apple, Pear, Cherry, and Plum rootstocks from us.Grafting is the only way to…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Best Apple Tree Varieties to Grow in the UK
The British climate makes for ideal apple territory.They like well drained, fertile soil including clay, and with shelter can grow inland at…
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Gardening
Building Wire Supports To Grow Fruit On Walls, Fences & Posts
This post concentrates on fruiting plants, but the same principles apply to an ornamental “wall shrub”.How to start training fruit trees on…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Best Cold Hardy Apple Trees For The North & Scotland
Apple Tree Varieties Suitable for Scotland & the NorthApple trees are incredibly hardy, however, their flowers can be damaged in freezing weather,…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Get As Many Fruit Varieties As Possible From A Small Area
Cordon apples & pears are even better suited to grafting than freestanding trees
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Trees
Why We Don’t Sell Isaac Newton’s Apple Tree
It’s not a very good apple tree. Simple as that. Several years ago, we sold “Isaac Newton’s apple tree”, which is already…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Partial Self Fertility in Fruit Trees Like Summer Sun
One of our customers, M, got in touch with a fruit tree pollination question, asking about the difference between: Not self-fertile Partially…
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Trees
Backseat Driving: Do I Need To Stake A Tree?
Picking on Huw Richards Inspires Us to Make Better Tree Planting VideosAt Ashridge, we feel a bit responsible for how well people…
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