Spring
What to do with apple scab disease
The ascomycete fungus that causes apple scab is the biggest challenge for organic orchardists in northern Germany. In spring time you sometimes find last year’s …
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Spring
Uninvited visitors
When everything begins to stir after cold winter passes, it’s not only trees and plants that awake from their seasonal lull, but also fungus and insects …
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Spring
The bloom means it’s time to get a move on
With stone fruit the ‘pink stage’ of blossoming is called ‘white bud’, because cherry and plum blossom does not have red petals. Once the bud …
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Spring
Apple blossoming: tight cluster and pink stages
Spring only really begins for an orchardist with the onset of the blossom season. In order for the winter buds to turn into blossom, they …
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Machines
With platforms for a neat cut
As soon as we fruit growers are sure the risk of harsh frosts is over and temperatures are above minus five degrees centigrade, tree pruning …
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Winter
A tale of earth worms and orchard growers
Winter begins when the last leaves are falling from the trees. The last of the remaining nutrients have receded into the woody part of the …
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Family Tradition
Group photo with a future
These days it isn’t a matter of course anymore for sons to follow in their fathers’ footsteps. Anything is possible in a world of possibilities.
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Family Tradition
Up a tree
In the 60s the cherry trees could be up to 12 metres high and as a school boy I topped up my pocket money by …
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Family Tradition
The apple doesn’t fall far from the trunk
This is an old German proverb similar in meaning to the English “a chip off the old block”. It can be used in many situations. …
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The Homestead
For 500 years…
The farm and our ancestors can be traced back in old church registers over 17 generations to 1520. The first “Boomgarden” on the highest ground …
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