Apple trees! - 18 October 2006

Been busy digging and weeding a strip of ground ready for fruit. The triangular area marked out up to the corner of the shed is going to be all fruit - once I've dug it!!.


Planted two lovely medium sized (12ft tall when fully grown), two year old apple trees. A cooking apple which is sweet enough to eat called Holgate (i think), no need to add sugar and apparently it keeps it's shape well when cooked. The other is Elstar, it has red fruit with pale white flesh, very sweet and juicy - the sort of apple Snowwhite would have eaten! They have to be planted 12ft apart, mine are 10ft apart - oopphs!


Mum planted a row off Japanese onions alongside the apples and I've sown some green manure, Hungarian rye all over to suppress the weeds.

Edged the fruit bed with decking to hold the crumbly soil in place and create a path to the shed. Interesting...


Started digging the next stretch of ground ready for raspberry canes today!