Transplanting older fruit trees.

[Ty Korrigan]

17 minutes ago, Conor Wright said:

Shame to see productive trees getting ripped out. Is there anyone around you with a rootballer?  If the roots were taken up a little more carefully and you planted them the same day along with a hard prune and plenty of water as required they may well be salvageable as garden trees that bear a few fruits, but never as fully productive orchards again.

 

As the metrological and financial climates swing then so must the producers.

Some areas hit by successive years of hail, hard late frosts and Summer storms have seen some fruit growers unable to obtain insurance so they cannot take the risk of an insured crop loss when they have finance on the business.

Same with veg producers in low lying areas affected by flooding.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

10 minutes ago, Ty Korrigan said:

 

As the metrological and financial climates swing then so must the producers.

Some areas hit by successive years of hail, hard late frosts and Summer storms have seen some fruit growers unable to obtain insurance so they cannot take the risk of an insured crop loss when they have finance on the business.

Same with veg producers in low lying areas affected by flooding.

 

Are these apples for cider?

[Will C]

As well as a hard prune I would also pick all the fruit off for a year or two so they put there energy into recovery rather than fruiting

Edited March 31 by Will C
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[Ty Korrigan]

18 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Are these apples for cider?

This form of tree is for eating.

Cider are far larger and rarely pruned.

It's on one of the expat gardening pages.

Whilst the evening news has articles on producers destroying their vines and trees, not one has mentioned selling them off which seems a good idea tbh.

It is just the way they are removed, ragged out without a root ball.

 

Edited April 1 by Ty Korrigan