My weekend - an almond tree

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:01:01 GMT

My plan is to spend tomorrow in my front garden. It's needed weeding for the last 2 months, but everytime I've looked at it I've said, "after Midwinter".

It's after Midwinter, so tomorrow I'm gardening.

I was going to prune my Almond tree. I've intended to do that for the past 3 years, but every year I realise I'm too late. I thought this year was going to be my year. I was wrong.

When I looked at it this morning I realised that even though it only lost the last of its leaves 2 weeks ago, it already has flower buds. That's right, I blinked and missed the opportunity.

That's possibly ok though because now I've done my research, I"ve found out that late spring/early summer might be a better time - less chance of disease problems apparently.

Anyway, so I know where to look next time, here are the best links I found on the subject:

http://www.treeworld.info/attachments/f2/1626d1183263802-another-almond-tree-http.pdf_almonds-garden-h3136.pdf http://www.treeworld.info/attachments/f2/1627d1183263826-another-almond-tree-fs2006_fruitpruning_msivyer.pdf

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My weekend - an almond tree