Age: | Planted in about |
Rootstock: | Not sure-prob MM106 |
Soil: | shallow clay/chalk on rock |
Climate at this location: | very hot dry summers, severe long winters |
Pruning: | Not yet |
Tree form: | Bush (wider at top than bottom) |
Height: | Between 6ft / 2m and 15ft / 4m |
Cropping: | Biennial cropping (alternate years) |
Growth: | This tree grows fairly well here |
Herbicides: | Manual treatment (hoeing and weeding) |
Pesticides: | Chemical treatments |
Local pests: | aphids,canker,codling moth,deer,wild boar,processional (I think moths) plant louse (some kind of sap-sucking hemipteran) |