Episode 342. Pruning Stone fruit trees - a podcast by Richard

In today's podcast, I am talking about pruning fruit trees. In the diary section, I have also removed a tree from the front of our house.A full transcript of the podcast is available below.





This weeks diary section cobvers what I ahve been up to over the weekend includingRemoving a treeSecuring plantsremoving lettuce



And much more in the podcastPruning stone fruit trees.



Its that time of year when its best to prune stone fruit trees and in this podcast I talk you along how I go about pruning my cherry tree as I carry out the task.Why do we do it at this time of year?



Why do we prune our stone fruit trees?How do we do it?



All answered in this podcastEpisode 342 Transcript



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00.05Hello and welcome to episode 342 of the veg grower podcast. My names Richard and I am on a mission to grow as much food as I can in my allotment and modern victory garden today is Monday the 29th June 2020 and Coming up a little later on I shall be discussing summer pruning our fruit trees but first we have the diary section with what I have been up to over the weekend.



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Its Saturday the 27th June 2020 and today I have been busy in the front garden despite having some heavy showers and very windy weather. You may remember a few weeks ago when I had my wife on the podcast she mentioned this tree in our front garden that she wanted gone.I’ve no idea what the tree is and actually we quite liked the tree it self unfortunately it was right outside our front door and in the wrong place. If we walked outside our door we would hit our heads on the branches. It also was not an edible tree which for me meant it had to go as hard as it is.



Well today we decided to cut it down so armed with my battery chainsaw, which I love, we chopped it down and into small pieces to season before burning on our fireplaces. I don’t use chemicals and its not feasible to dig out the roots because of where it is so we have left the stump which I know can annoy some people but It’ll rot eventually.In its place I have placed my olive tree which is edible and attractive.



I have had this olive tree for a number of years. I don’t get much in the way of olives from it but I do reckon with a bit of care and perhaps in its new position it might do a lot better in terms of providing us with Olives.We will keep an eye on that and report back in the future.



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Its Sunday the 28th June 2020 this morning I popped down to the allotment quickly to water the greenhouse but also to prune my cherry trees. Now I will be talking about that a bit later on so I wont go into to much detail with that just yet.I'm now back at home and something I have noticed is that my turmeric plant has started growing again. I grow turmeric as an indoor plant and I have to admit I’m not so good at looking after indoor plants as I am as outdoor plants but turmeric is something I do grow. hadn't seen any signs of life at was beginning to think it had died but just this weekend a stem has sprouted and its now 6 inches tall which I am pleased with. I believe it might be triggered by the daylight length I’m not sure I shall have to look into it to find out but I am pleased it is now growing.



After that I headed outside and tended to my lettuce both growing in the ground and in my vegepod. As these are all beginning to bolt its time to remove them which I have now done. The ones in the ground I am going to plant some of my other plants in a few days time once I have worked out whats going in but my vegepod I will be sowing more salad leaves on Wednesday which is my way of continually growing salad leaves and it works well for me. If you don’t know I split my vegepod in half and alternate side I sow fresh seed into each month which provides us with plenty of salad leaves.After that I then went around tying in and securing many ...

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