List of topics in this manual:
- Row spacings & tree heights
- Tree spacing and densities
- Which rootstock - Dwarfing, semi-vigorous, vigorous?
- Nursery trees - the ideal tree
- NEW Scion rooting of apples
- Tree growth habit
- Different pruning cuts
- Heading cut - spring vs winter
- Thinning cut
- Delay heading
- Bench cut
- Clean cut
- December cut
- Ring cut
- After planting
- When buds move in spring
- When you can not plant feathered trees
- Manage trees in the first season
- feathered trees
- Rods/whips
- Second year
- tree growth and management
- Third year
- prepare for ongoing productivity
- Fourth year - trees should have filled their alloted space
- Renewal pruning
- Summer pruning for skin colour
- How to minimise sunburnt fruit
- NEW Hail net
- benefits
- crop load
- bee activity
- types
- colour
- What causes biennial bearing
- Root pruning
- NEW Crown Gall
- NEW What are burr knots
- Calcium in the soil, tree and fruit
- What is watercore?
- Tree nutrition
- A guide to replace the nutrient losses from harvested fruit
- Nitrogen applications
- NEW How useful is a soil test
- Soil organic matter
- why is it important
- supply of nutrients
- NEW Use winter weeds to improve your soil
- NEW Weed mulch + gypsum
- NEW Six steps to prepare soil before planting
- Winter chill for breaking dormancy - chilling requirement
- Balancing growth and cropping
