This past week and a half has been spent on the fruit department doing a wide range of things. The week started out tying in raspberries which you can see from the pictures a certain knot was used to keep the canes tied in for the winter. Other tasks included preparing the bed that the national collection of rhubarb will be planted into. We propagated new root stock and removed the old root stock from a bed that is being replaced. During the week I was able to go to a talk put on by the fruit specialist as well as another member of the fruit department. The talk was on trained fruit which included both apple and pear trees. They talked about different patterns for pruning like fans and espaliers as well as pruning techniques and timing. Toward the end of the week we did some apple picking as well as the beginning of this week. We also raked the apples out from under the trees into the windrows so they could be mashed. So far fruit has been amazing and I can't wait for the rest of the week!
This past week and a half has been spent on the fruit department doing a wide range of things. The week started out tying in raspberries which you can see from the pictures a certain knot was used to keep the canes tied in for the winter. Other tasks included preparing the bed that the national collection of rhubarb will be planted into. We propagated new root stock and removed the old root stock from a bed that is being replaced. During the week I was able to go to a talk put on by the fruit specialist as well as another member of the fruit department. The talk was on trained fruit which included both apple and pear trees. They talked about different patterns for pruning like fans and espaliers as well as pruning techniques and timing. Toward the end of the week we did some apple picking as well as the beginning of this week. We also raked the apples out from under the trees into the windrows so they could be mashed. So far fruit has been amazing and I can't wait for the rest of the week! 
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