{"id":4683,"date":"2013-03-21T18:03:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T18:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greensideup.ie\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2015-07-30T08:33:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T07:33:49","slug":"pruning-fruit-in-goresbridge-community-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/pruning-fruit-in-goresbridge-community-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruning Fruit in Goresbridge Community Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
This time last year we were having a mini heat wave and drought followed by weeks of rain, yet here we are approaching the end of March and we still have snow forecasts! It makes you wonder what weather is in store for us for the rest of the year and how climate change will affect us all.<\/p>\n
One thing for sure is that food prices will increase \u00a0as the\u00a0unpredictability\u00a0of the seasons makes it increasingly difficult for farmers to grow food crops or animal grain. As a result we’ll definitely be aiming to grow as much as we can here on the Greenside Up patch and I’ll be helping as many community gardeners to grow as I can too,.<\/p>\n
<\/a>With soil temperatures so low we’ve been very limited with what we can sow outside but that worked to our advantage this week in the community garden as it meant we could prune the fruit bushes and trees. I’ve included links to the RHS guidelines on pruning and care as they’re excellent for reference.<\/p>\n <\/a>We started with the apple trees<\/a>. There are two in the garden that, although still young, produced lots of fruit last year.<\/p>\n