What to do with apple scab disease
Spring

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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