22nd July 2025
From the Facebook page of Warminster Community Orchard:
The trees on the Orchard have now had a thinning of their crops. The ones we could reach! To start with, it is about looking at the tree to see what is going on. We all felt we were discarding a shocking amount of fruit but this is necessary in several ways: quality over quantity for the yield, it prevents branches breaking with the weight and it also evens out the productivity of the trees so that it is less extreme – avoiding the fallow one year, excess the next pattern. The final phase of summer tasks is to lightly prune side growths and allow light to get into the trees. I do think they were thanking us.
Warminster Community Orchard Facebook