Agility Tree...X-plosive Quick Foot Drill!!

restoring old apple trees part 1
Julia and I had the opportunity on February 14th 2009 to help some friends who had moved into a house with a mature garden and some old fruit trees, mainly apples and 2 pears, which were somewhat overgrown. I am putting up half a dozen videos to show roughly what we did. What to do with an old fruit tree in a garden which is not ideally situated, may be diseased, and has not been pruned for years is probably the question I am most often asked. There is a good section on restoring a neglected and overgrown fruit garden in 'TheFruit Garden Displayed' but this excellent book is sadly out of print. I contacted the publuishers, the Royal Horticultural Society, and for reasons which seem good to them they are definitely not going to reprint it, which I think is a great pity. Anyhow, these videos are an attempt to show what we do when faced with this sort of tree. The main problem of these trees was of being originally planted too close together, maybe 30 years ago. The other problems are perhaps secondary to this. Our friends Andrew and Helen were prepared to take our advice to completely cut down 2 out of 4 apple trees in a row, when you have seen all the videos I invite you to agree with me that this was the right decision-these were big trees only 2 metres apart, in one case only 1 metre. This will inevitably cause the trees to grow higher and higher, reduce air and light and promote fungal diseases due to reduced air flow and increased dampness. The other problem was ...
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Another shot of the base of the weight tree

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