Winter Pruning at Sapgate Gardens

Learn how to prune mature apple and pear trees in winter to maintain their shape, health and productivity.

Donation Tickets

The folks at Sapgate Gardens have kindly paid for this course to be run, so please pay what you can when you order your tickets - your donations will go to Sapgate Gardens to help with the running of this fab project.

Winter pruning

This course will cover basic pruning principles and practice on pip fruit trees (apples and pears). We will cover:

• How to 'read' the health of a tree
• Using the right tools
• Identifying and removing dead, damaged and disease wood
• Making heading cuts and thinning cuts to influence the shape, health and productivity of a tree

What to bring

If you have them, please bring along a sharp pair of secateurs, loppers, a pruning saw and a pair of rubber grip gardening gloves. Tools and gloves will be provided if you don’t have your own.

Remember to wear clothes and footwear appropriate for the weather and mud!

What we'll provide

Participants will each receive a copy of Chloe Ward's excellent pruning guide "for real people with imperfect trees".

Location

Sapgate Lane

Thornton

Bradford

BD13 3DY

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Cancellation

If you can't make it anymore please let us know as soon as you can so we can release your ticket to someone else.

Accessibility

'We don't have power or loos on Sapgate, but the Community Centre is nearby and we can use those facilities for wee and a brew.

Parking is on street nearby, best to come along Northcliffe Drive and park on Sapgate Lane, before you get to Heathcliff Mews- after that it turns into cobbles.'