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« on: March 15, 2010, 07:58:22 PM »

As we are now into early spring I thought I would give some tips Smiley

General
Mulch around fruit trees, nuts and bushes
Control aphids on various fruits, don´t spray when they have blossom!
Weed time, oh yes it is time to get on top of weeds
Repot or top dress container grown fruits if required

Tree Fruits
Protect almond, peach, apricot and nectarine blossom from frost make sure insects can still pollinate though
Pruning newly planted stone fruits if the weather is dry
Protect cherry blossom from frost
Apply nitrogen feed to plums, cherries, cooking apples and pears
Switch to citrus summer feed

Soft Fruits
Pollinate strawberry flowers under glass by brushing over them with your hands
Plant cranberries or lingonberries
Mulch raspberries, blueberries, cranberries and lingonberries with with well rotted farmyard manure
Apply high nitrogen feed to blackcurrants
Prune blueberries
Suplhur chips to blueberry beds, lingonberries and cranberries
Plant stawberry runners
Sow seeds of alpine strawberries
Untie canes of black and hybrid berries that have been bundled together for winter

Vine Fruits
Never prune these in spring to avoid sap bleeding

Nuts
Prune cobnuts and filberts
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« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2010, 02:50:46 PM »

The tips were useful but "spring"?... I don´t think so!

Two days ago, with the coming of the equinox in sight, the temperature shot up by eight degrees. Swallows started looking for any open windows, a solitary swift flew overhead, the apricot tree burst into bloom and the frogs in a farmer´s deposito became very vocal. Several different butterflies fluttered around, and I even disturbed a sleepy cicada.

Spring at last? Well, today we´re back to normal; pouring wet and shrouded in thick mist. Will it never end?

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« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2010, 10:57:05 AM »

Oh dear Alec, we are turning into Spring here, everything in the garden is changing I have seen butterflies also and quite a few I will add

We have bright sunshine here and very little clouds in sight, the other night sounded like summer when the cicadas kicked off their chorus, nosiy buggers hehehe

It will end I am sure and I am hoping you get a spin off from our good weather we have down here Smiley
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