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DIGGING DEEP GARDENING TIPS FROM CHRIS Hi, my name is Chris and I am going to be writing a monthly gardening column for The Friday Edition. I was a Customs Officer for 30 years but left the service in 1993 and worked in Garden Centres in Auckland until I retired and moved to Te Aroha just over two years ago. Gardening, native flora and native wildlife are my passion and I have been writing a regular gardening column for the Aroha Advertiser (Te Aroha Mountain News) since September 2017. With a new group of readers to cater for, I will repeat some of that which I have already written, so I ask Mountain News readers to bear with me. This month, I will be briefly covering pruning which no longer conforms to the rules of old. Now most folk prune their fruit trees to allow for ease of harvest. In other words, a lower umbrella shaped tree from which fruit can be picked without resorting to ladders. There are obviously still some rules applying. For instance, for the health of the tree, it is better to wait until June or July when the sap is lower, and this will strengthen and aid the root growth as well as preventing diseases entering the cut areas. Also prune out any crossed branches and ensure your cutting tools are very sharp. A quality pruning paste should be applied to really large cuts as an added disease prevention. Fruit grown in the home garden in the Morrinsville and Te Aroha areas from my observation, tend to be apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, feijoas, plums, citrus and surprisingly, I have observed several figs in local gardens. Apples and pears produce fruit on the same spurs for several years, so be aware, that the more of these spurs that you cut off in your thinning, the less fruit you will get the following season. However, as a rule of thumb the fruit that you do get will generally be larger in size. Your prunus trees (plums, peaches, nectarines etc), should be thinned out annually to allow for air circulation and to once again keep the fruit within reach. Most plum trees grown in the home garden, are now Japanese varieties, are very vigorous in their growing habits, and can get out of hand if not cut back annually. Whereas your peaches and nectarines can be pruned bi-annually. Feijoas should only require pruning as a growth control and a bit of thinning to help prevent attack by scale insects. By and large feijoas are very hardy and mostly disease free. However, recently Guava moth (an insect that leaves a pinhole incision in the fruit through which it lays its eggs) has been attacking orchards further north. The eggs develop into maggots, which attack the fruit from the inside. Thanks Australia. Fig trees can be very unruly in their growth patterns and can be severely pruned back without any ill effect to the tree. Most of your citrus trees, lemons, mandarins, oranges etc grow very neat shapes, and do not require any pruning other than shaping and cutting out old dead branchlets. Grapes produce fruit on new lateral growth, and benefit from heavy pruning more than most other fruits. One of my jobs when I was in the Customs Department, was in the excise branch, and I visited many vineyards where I observed them cutting the vines right back to the old stumps. As well as fruit trees, most trees and shrubs in the household garden will benefit from a cut back. Especially roses which should like grapes, be severely cut back to their stumps. In fact, roses are something I need to spend more time writing about, and I will cover them more thoroughly another time. Your vegetable garden should not be ignored at this time of year, and if you intend to leave it fallow until Spring, then it is a good idea to plant a green crop which when dug into your Spring garden, will add manure and fix nitrogen in the soil. Mustard, lupin, wheat, barley and oats will all do the job admirably. Good gardening until next month…. CHRIS PG. 48 www.thefridayedition.co.nz | Facebook /thefridayedition
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