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Summer time ….

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Anni Kelsey

….. and despite the largely cool, cloudy and damp weather the garden is singing to me. We have eaten the offerings of the berry and currant bushes. The tree fruits are ripening on their as yet slender boughs.     … Continue reading →

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Tiny fruit trees – summer 2017

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Anni Kelsey

I am growing the fruit trees in my garden as ‘tiny fruit trees’ according the to method of Anne Ralph and as described in previous posts here and here. All these fruit trees are planted in polycultures of other fruits, … Continue reading →

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Time to prune the tiny fruit trees

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Anni Kelsey

On or after the solstice is the time to prune fruit trees according the method I am following from Ann Ralph’s ‘Grow a Little Fruit Tree’ book.  So now time like the present – I have been in the garden … Continue reading →

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Tiny fruit trees

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Anni Kelsey

Last year I planted seven new fruit trees.  I desperately wanted to have lots of different types and searched for a means of making sure they were small trees.  Clearly you can choose dwarfing rootstocks but those I had planted … Continue reading →

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Fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers – polycultures anew

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Anni Kelsey

I have been having such a lot of fun the last two weekends planting in the newly prepared areas.  First to go in were the trees.  I wanted to get additional fruit in the garden and chose seven fruit trees … Continue reading →

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