Trees planted in an already established orchard are curiously enough slow to make headway, and therefore in such cases I always advise grubbing.
Having decided that one is going to keep the trees, it is then necessary to start on the renovation scheme. This may begin with the removal of large numbers of trees because the orchard has been overplanted.
The cut is made deep enough to go right through the cambium layer and into the wood. Fruit growers have for some years been adopting this method for curing trees which appeared to be 'bark bound' but it is not generally known that it is a cure for silver leaf as well and on some farms 90 per cent of the trees affected with silver leaf have recovered when treated in this way and borne naturally two years later.
By removing, say, alternate rows from north to south when the orchard is planted on the triangular system or by taking out every other tree when the plantation has been planned on the square system you give adequate room for trees that have been starved of light and whose branches are undoubtedly going into one another.
It is a very good plan to mark the trees which are to be removed with a ring of white paint. If you, yourself, do this, then those you are employing to do the digging up of the trees will not make any mistakes.
Therefore, it is worth while tackling neglected trees carefully and gradually getting them right. The only exception to the rule, perhaps, is in the case of an orchard where there are gaps which amount to 25 per cent.
Having decided that one is going to keep the trees, it is then necessary to start on the renovation scheme. This may begin with the removal of large numbers of trees because the orchard has been overplanted.
The cut is made deep enough to go right through the cambium layer and into the wood. Fruit growers have for some years been adopting this method for curing trees which appeared to be 'bark bound' but it is not generally known that it is a cure for silver leaf as well and on some farms 90 per cent of the trees affected with silver leaf have recovered when treated in this way and borne naturally two years later.
By removing, say, alternate rows from north to south when the orchard is planted on the triangular system or by taking out every other tree when the plantation has been planned on the square system you give adequate room for trees that have been starved of light and whose branches are undoubtedly going into one another.
It is a very good plan to mark the trees which are to be removed with a ring of white paint. If you, yourself, do this, then those you are employing to do the digging up of the trees will not make any mistakes.
Therefore, it is worth while tackling neglected trees carefully and gradually getting them right. The only exception to the rule, perhaps, is in the case of an orchard where there are gaps which amount to 25 per cent.
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When fruit tree was dug at the nursery to be transplanted into your garden, about half of its root system was inevitably lost, and an equal amount of top growth must be removed to bring top and bottom into balance again.
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