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Should I prune my fruit trees in
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September? Now, this is a good question
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because I don't know an awful lot about
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pruning, uh, how to shape them, how to
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make them look, but I do know when you
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usually prune them. And that is usually
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when they finished fruiting, about the
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winter time, autumn, winter time, when
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they start to get dormant. And yeah,
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obviously we'll be harvesting all our
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apples this month and we'll be
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harvesting our pears, getting all them
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off. And once I finished harvesting,
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that's when I usually look to prune all
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my fruit trees. And the best way that I
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always find to prune the fruit trees
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because we're not allowed to let them
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get tall on our a lotment. I usually
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take some off the top and I usually make
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um stop any branches from crossing each
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other because they shouldn't be crossing
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or touching each other. So I usually
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snip off the ones that are crossing each
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other and yeah, I just usually give it a
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little bit of a tidy up. They say to let
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the air flow between the branches. So I
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always make sure that there's none too
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close together and I usually give it a
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good tidy up. Also during the autumn
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winter period I sometimes give them a
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winter wash and you can usually get this
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product off Amazon or from the garden
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centers and it's basically a spray what
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you put on them to stop the winter moths
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from nesting in the fruit trees over the
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winter period. You can also buy the
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green sticky tape what you put around
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the bottom. That also stops any bugs
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crawling up them and hibernating in the
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trees during the winter months. The ones
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that usually attack the plants when
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they've got the fruit on. So, it's a
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case of getting them before they get to
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the hibernation period. So, that is a
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couple of jobs that I usually do. And
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yeah, it's a case of just tidying up and
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obviously keeping all the leaves. what
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drop off them putting them in your
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compost pile to use for mulch and you
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can use them on your onions and your
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garlic that will help keep the moisture
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in and help provide food on them. So
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yeah, using the leaves from the trees is
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usually good. So if you are pruning your
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fruit trees, probably wait until they've
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dropped all the leaves and then you can
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collect all the leaves and use them for
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mulch and in the compost beds.
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So that is how and when we usually prune
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our fruit trees. Now, the fruit trees
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that you should prune in the autumn
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winter time are usually the apples and
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the pears and the that's the ones that
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you usually prune in the winter period.
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The ones that you prune in the summer
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period are usually the plum tree and the
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cherries. Anything that's got a stone
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inside, you prune in the summertime
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because it can affect it with silver
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leaf. So, that's how I usually remember
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it. All the stone ones prune in summer.
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All the other ones like the apples and
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the pears, you prune in the winter
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autumn period. So, I hope you found that
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useful. I'll be getting my fruit trees
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pruned once all the fruits finished and
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harvested. So until next time everyone
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remember keep smiling, keep shining and
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keep gardening with Ben everyone.
