A combination of some great weather recently followed by some wet weather has really brought the orchard to life.
I mow the grass on average around once a week and slowly the quality of the grass seems to be improving. It doesn’t take long. Around 30 minutes. Much of this is down to it being a mulching mower so there is no grass to collect. I try to cut the grass just before it rains as this helps the clippings rot down a little quicker.
The trees are doing well too. There is a lot of fruit on the trees, particularly those that I pruned back last year. Surprising since I didn’t really know what I was doing at the time. Our lone pear tree has no pears. But there again, it was one of the trees that I didn’t cut back.
A combination of some very hot weather followed by some very wet weather has really brought the orchard to life.
Bizarrely, the trees that I heavily pruned last year seem to have the most fruit on them. There are mainly apple trees, but lots of different varieties.
More apples, but from a slightly older tree.
I don’t know what it is, but it definitely isn’t an apple. And you never realised that I wasn’t a gardener! I think it is a damson. But it could be a plum.