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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..
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..
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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)
|
||
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
|
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