List of topics in this manual
- Varieties:
- list
- description
- harvest period
- Rootstocks
- Bacterial canker
- Protect cherries from birds
- Deterrents
- Netting
- When it rains - cracking and how to minimise it
- What makes cherries of high quality
- Bruising and pitting
- NEW Why calcium is important for cherry quality
- NEW Extend shelf life with MAP
- Pollination and fruit set
- compatibility
- honey bees
- Flower bud development
- orchard activities for success
- What causes doubling, spurring and suturing
- Grow big cherries
- thin spurs in winter
- Forcing young cherry trees to make side shoots
- Cytolin - preparation and application timing
- bud removal and heading new shoots
- Birth and death of a spur
- Stress young trees to make them productive
- control shoot growth
- Cherry nitrogen needs
- application rates
- general guide
- How useful is a soil test?
- leaf and sap analysis
- Soil organic matter
- why is it important
- what is it
- amount in the soil
- supply of nutrients
- soil stability
- NEW Crown Gall
- facts
- control
- GA improves fruit firmness and delays fruit maturity
- Winter chill for breaking dormancy
- chilling requirement
- tree response to chilling
