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$39.50 In StockSaint Edmund's Pippin Dwarfing Ripens: February - March
Ripens earlier than most russets and valued for it's sprightly rich flavour. Juicy and sweet with a nice balance of acidity. The skin is a broken golden russet over a greenish background. Originating in St Edmunds, Suffolk UK about 1870.
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$39.50 In StockTwenty Ouncer Dwarfing Ripens: February - March
This is one of the largest varieties we grow. Just huge, rivaling Belle Cacheuse and Peasgood Nonesuch in size. And as the name suggests, the fruit are up to twenty ounces (566g) in weight! Greenish in colour flushed and striped where the sun gets it. Coarse but tender yellowish flesh, cooks fantastically and is good eaten too - shared between 4 people!...
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$39.50 In StockCampbelltown Russet Dwarfing Ripens: March - April
This unique russet originates in Campbelltown in Tasmania. Covered completely in russet covering a yellowish skin, it's yellow flesh has a tinge of green that's brisk and aromatic in taste. A heavy and regular cropper of largish fruit. Stores and cooks well. Ripens early compared to other russets.
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$39.50 In StockEgremont Russet Dwarfing Ripens: April - May
England's most important commercial russet variety, still grown commercially! Probably originated in England in the 1870's. It has a characteristic russet yellow skin, sometimes with a patch of red when ripe. A rich, crunchy flesh with an almost a nutty flavour. Keeps well.
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$39.50 In StockRome Beauty Dwarfing Ripens: May - June
Rome produces large brilliant glossy red fruit that resists bruising and is a heavy cropper. Good eating and becomes very sweet the riper it gets. Originating on the northern bank of the Ohio River in a town called Rome in the early 1800's where it appeared from a sucker below the graft of an orchard tree. Was grown commercially for some time in the USA and
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$39.50 In StockAntoinette Ripens: March
A French cider variety, green with a orange red stripy cheek. Small to medium fruit. Bitter-sweet.
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$39.50 In StockBlanchette Ripens: March
A French cider variety. Medium sized deep yellowy green fruit, with a faint collar of russet. Tart (aigre).
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$39.50 In StockRanelagh Crab Ripens: June - August
This is a distinctive, extremely late ripening crab discovered by us. The bantam egg sized crabs deep red in colour literally weigh down the branches with the weight of fruit and look great well after the trees have lost their leaves. Their fruits are highly acid but finally become quite tasty in late August. Children seem to really go for them.
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$42.50 In StockRome Beauty Step-Over Ripens: May - June
Originating on the northern bank of the Ohio River in a town called Rome. It appeared from a sucker below the graft of an orchard tree. It's a large brilliant red fruit that resists bruising and is a heavy cropper. Good eating and becomes very sweet. Can tolerate a low chill environment.
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Espaliering Made Easy
Despite what the gardening media can imply, people who actually do produce their own food or part of it, know it is not a matter of skipping through the flower-dotted lawn to pick a perfect lettuce of a plump peach from a sweet little garden ringed with calendulas. The sweet little garden is more likely to be ringed with wire netting
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$39.50 In StockGorgeous Crab Ripens: March - April
A small tree to 4m with an amazing crop of 2cm round clusters of crimson red fruits. Great in flower arrangements and jelly. Originating in NZ.
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$39.50 In StockMalus Floribunda Ripens: March - April
Forms a spreading densly branched tree, producing amazing masses of reddish pink blossom in Spring. During Autumn, produces a lot of small red fruit. This crab is planted as a focal point for its bloom but the fruit can be used in cooking.
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$39.50 In StockBrown Snout Ripens: April - May
Originating in Hereford, UK in the mid 1800's. A late medium bitter-sweet variety, high yeilding.
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$39.50 In StockSweet Coppin Ripens: March
Originally from Devon, UK. Makes sweet cider, or for balancing with bitter / sharp varieties. Ripen in March.
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$39.50 In StockMichelin Ripens: March
A medium sized yellow-green fruit ripening mid-season (March). A bitter-sweet variety, originating in Yvetot, France. Produces medium cider, and often used for blending. Partially self-fertile.
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$39.50 In StockGoldsmith Dwarfing Ripens: June - July
Goldsmith is a cross between Granny Smith and Golden Delicious. Completely green in colour, the shape is destincly less round than a Granny and more that of a golden delicious. The flavour is also a remarkable mix of the two - one can appreciate the acid of the Granny, but the sweet of the Golden.
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Codling Moth Control
Colding Moth Control This is a troublesome worm that can affect apples, pears and quinces. The adult moth is 10-15mm long, and tiny pin head eggs are laid in September and hatch into caterpillars after 10 days where it feeds on leaves before moving onto fruit. It feasts on the fruit for 3-5 weeks to fatten up, after which it leaves the fruit looking for...
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$105.00 In StockGrafting Workshop - via ZOOM Saturday 19th...
Course Content: • Explanation of Espalier technique including Horizontal-T, Fan espalier and Stepover Espaliers. • Construction of various espalier trellises and fences. • Planting the fruit tree, pruning and tying onto a wire. • Different techniques for keeping branches where you want them. • Pruning technique for future...
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Espaliering Apricots and Plums
We continuously receive enquiries about the possibility of espaliering stone fruit i.e. apricots and plums, and my reply is that they are far too vigorous but there aren’t any satisfactory dwarfing root stocks available for apricots and plums as there are for apples and pears. To try and contain a 4 metre apricot tree at a 2 metres
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Potted Fruit Trees
Fruit trees really prefer to be planted in the ground, but in some situations it would be great to have them in pots. Although you wont get the yield or size of fruit, dwarfing fruit trees will do well either as a espalier or open tree in pots. They should be planted in winter, and best to buy them bare-rooted one year old trees.
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Rootstocks explained
A rootstock is an simply a variety selected especially for it’s disease resistance, health and vigour. These characteristics are passed onto the whole tree once the desired variety is grafted on top. Rootstocks are usually grown in stool beds where they are layered down and the vertical shoots harvested along with a few roots
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$23.00 In StockTasmanian Pepperberry - FEMALE Ripens: March
A native to Tasmania (Tasmannia lanceolata) forming a shrub or small tree 1-3m. Grown for it's edible pepper corns, which when dried are a great substitute for black pepper. Form an attractive tree, with red stem and small ovate dark green peppery leaves. Small white flowers in summer, forming berries in Autumn. The female forms the berries, but needs a...
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Leaf Curl
From the amount of inquiries I receive about cross pollination I’m convinced that this is a very misunderstood part of apple culture. Apples have a very large and rich genetic background just as we humans have, and this has enabled them to adapt to and be grown in just about all climate zones
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Espaliering Made Even Easier - KNNN method
You may have noticed that there is a quiet revolution happening in gardening in Australia. It may have something to do with the environment and it may have something to do with the industrialisation of the way much of our food is produced. Many people are genuinely trying to produce some part of their own food in their own
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Pruning - summer and winter
If nobody has any idea about cross pollination and the sexual habits of our fruit trees, just about everyone has an opinion - even people who’ve never got their hands dirty - about how to prune them. Now pruning is the process whereby we shape and train a young tree and prepare it for a life of producing fruit for us. Pruning is
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Constructing Trellises and Strainers
A trellis is a structure or framework upon which to train a plant. Ideally it needs to support itself, support the tree and offer some way of tying branches down so as to define the shape of an espalier system. The trellis system and size should reflect the growth habit of the tree or trees that it’s supporting. For example, a kiwi trellis needs to...