Fruit Tree Advice

Correct Pollination of your Fruit Trees Increases crop Size Just select your chosen fruit type and variety in the drop-down lists below and click "Find Pollination Partners". You will then get a list of the compatible varieties available here. .kb-article-view ol{ list-style: o...

General Care of Pot Grown Figs These instructions apply specifically to Brown Turkey figs but they will also work for any member of the family Ficus carica whose fruit will reliably ripen outdoors in the UK.   You should repot your fig every 3-4 years when it is without l...

Pruning a Brown Turkey Fig This pruning guide was written specifically for Brown Turkey fig trees but it will also apply to most of the other members of the family Ficus carica grown in the UK.   To maximise crop size free standing and pot grown figs are best grown as bushes and their e...

Summary Some species of fruit tree - apples and pears are the prime culprits - can get into the habit of alternating heavy crops one year with carrying little or nothing the year after. next. Some varieties - for example, Blenheim Orange, Bramley and Laxton’s are natural alternate croppers...

What is the ‘June drop’? Simple - Lots of apple or pear fruitlets on the ground under your precious fruit trees in June long before they are ripe. While the June Drop can look frightening, there’s usually no need to worry about it. In midsummer, most fruit trees shed some...

Fruit thinning Reducing the number of fruits on a tree is called thinning and it is a good thing to do for several reasons: Fruit trees can produce such large crops that they end up small and misshapen. A heavy crop one year often results in a poor, or non-existent one the following year (ca...

Apple Scab & Pear Scab - Disease  These diseases can affect fruit trees such as apples and pears including their respective ornamental equivalents. Apple Scab & Pear Scab - Symptoms Scab (which is caused by a fungus - Venturia inaequalis) can infect both apples and pears and it at...

Fruit tree shapes  Fruit trees (Apples, Cherries, Damsons, Pears, Plums, Quince etc) are grown in a variety of shapes. Ashridge Trees supplies a number of these ready formed and the raw material to allow you to produce your own fruit tree shapes. If you want to produce your own, we sell ap...

Simple Apple Storage  Browse all our apple trees here. Only store perfect looking apples that you picked from the tree. Any damaged or windfall fruit should be juiced, cooked, made into jam or just eaten right away. Store apples in a cold but frost free place. A little humidity in the air...

Cracked and split fruit  Fruit split is a disfiguring condition where one or more splits, often branched, are seen on the surface of apples, pears and other fruit. The splits are usually not very deep, but they cause wounds that allow diseases and pests to attack otherwise healthy (and tast...