13 January 2014

The Orchard

The Orchard (as of 12 January 2014)


There are currently ten trees (apple [dessert and culinary], pear, plum and cherry) planted in the orchard, with sixteen more (apple [dessert and culinary], pear, plum, mirabelle and cherry [dessert and culinary]) on order. I have yet to order cider apple trees.

I have, to date, dug forty planting holes, each a cube of 40 cm. I have extracted approximately 166.4 kg (40 cm x 40 cm x 40 cm x 2.6 g/cm3 of soil, from which I shall sieve out between 10 kg and 20 kg of stones (mostly flints). I intend to re-use the stones as hard-core with which to make a firm path running the length of the orchard.

Each of the trees is socked and booted with a plastic tree guard and a cardboard mulch collar to protect their bark and roots from predation by rabbits.





Trees in the orchard

House and Garden

1
Y1
Y1
Y1
Y1
2
Y1
Y1
Y1
Y1
3
Y1
Y1
Y1
Y1
4
Y1 (M9 or M26 rootstock only)
Y1 (M9 or M26 rootstock only)
Y1 (M9 or M26 rootstock only)
Y1 (M9 or M26 rootstock only)
5
Victoria plum
Bleu de Belgique plum
Conference pear
Y1
6
Unidentified dessert apple
Sunburst dessert cherry
Conference pear
Y1
7
Nofolk Biffin culinary apple
Red Falstaff dessert apple
Christmas Pippin dessert apple
Y1
8
Golden Noble culinary apple
Y1
Y1
Y1
9
Y1
Y1
Y1
Y1
10
Y1
Y1
Y1
Y1
11
Y2 (yet to be dug)
Y2 (yet to be dug)
Y2 (yet to be dug)
Y2 (yet to be dug)
12
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13
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Projected number and variety of trees (by category)

Category
Projected number
Number of trees
Number of varieties
Apple, cider
15


Apple, culinary
15
2 (+1)
2 (+1)
Apple, desert
15
3 (+2)
3 (+2)
Apricot
4


Cherry, culinary
4
(1)
(1)
Cherry, dessert
6
1 (+4)
1 (+3)
Damson plum
4
(1)
(1)
Fig
3


Greengage plum
4


Mirabelle plum
4
(1)
(1)
Mulberry
1


Peach
2


Pear
14
2 (+4)
1 (+3)
Persimmon
1


Plum
5
2 (+1)
2 (+0)
Quince
2
(1)
(1)
Walnut
1


Total
100
10 (+16)
9 (+13)

Trees bought (black), ordered (red), to consider (blank)

Apples
Apple, cider
Bulmers Norman


Dabinett


Nottingham Colonel


Tillington Ladies Finger


Yarlington Mill

Apple, culinary
Bramley
1

Golden Noble
1

Norfolk Biffin
1
Apple, dessert
Christmas Pippin
1

Cox’s Orange Pippin


Egremont Russet
1

Gala
1

Red Falstaff
1

Unidentified
1
Pears

Beurre Hardy
1

Concorde


Conference
2 (+1)

Doyenne de Comice
1

Williams
1
Quince

Cydonia oblonga Vranja
1
Apricot

Tomcot

Cherry

Lapins Cherokee
1

Morello
1

Regina
1

Stella
1

Sunburst
1 (+1)
Damson plum

Blue Violet


Early Rivers


Farleigh Damson  / Crittenden's Prolific (Kent)


Frogmore (Berkshire)


King of the Damsons / Bradley's King (Nottinghamshire)


Merriweather / Merryweather
1

Shropshire Prune / Prune Damson / Long Damson /  Damascene / Westmoreland Damson / Cheshire Damson

Greengage plum

Boddarts Reneclode (Germany)


Bryanston (UK)


Cambridge Gage (UK)


Canerik (Turkey)


Denniston's Superb (USA)


Golden Transparent (UK)


Graf Althanns Reneklode (Germany)


Green Vanilla (Mount Pelion, Greece)


Große Grüne Reneklode (Germany)


Laxton's Gage (UK)


Laxton's Supreme (UK)


Meroldts Reneclode (Germany)


Old Green Gage


Rainha Cláudia (Portugal)


Regina Claudia (Italy)


Reine Claude de Bavay (Belgium)


Reine Claude d'Oullins (France)


Reine Claude Verte (France)


Transparent Gage (France)


Uhinks Reneklode (Germany)


Washington (USA)

Mirabelle plum

Golden Sphere


Gypsy


Mirabelle de Nancy
1

Ruby (Cherry Plum)

Plum

Bleu de Belgique
1

Victoria
1 (+1)
Other Fruit


Elder (hedging)


Fig

Brown Turkey


Violette de Bordeaux

Persimmon

Diospyros virginiana

Almond


Hazel



Kentish Cob

Walnut