Gardeners World Pruning advice

[Digeroo]

Watched Monty pruning his pears and seemed to imply this was ok for apples.  But some apples are spur bearing but others are tip bearers.  If I pruned my golden delicious as he suggested it would never ever have any fruit at all. 

[Digeroo]

[galina]

Watched Monty pruning his pears and seemed to imply this was ok for apples.  But some apples are spur bearing but others are tip bearers.  If I pruned my golden delicious as he suggested it would never ever have any fruit at all. 

Agreed.  He also did not mention that apples and pears can be pruned dormant in winter, but plums and cherries and peaches/apricots etc must only be pruned when in sap, ie in summer.  I am disappointed in Monty on GW recently.

[goodlife]

ARRGH!....here we go again and again...their 'teaching' is not up to scratch..again.
Almost every week there is these 'small' little details that fails.
I'm sad and I admit it..but my watching of GW start to be 'spot the wrongs' challenge. :-\

[saddad]

I noticed he said Plums and Gages were different then make no further reference to them at all...  ::)

[goodlife]

I'll need to watch it again..I fell on sleep half way through.. :-X ;D..

[darkbrowneggs]

As with anything on TV one assumes that the person PRESENTING knows something about the subject - ie the weather forecasters are not really weather forecasters -  they are weather presenters.  People fronting programmes are not chosen for their knowledge but their screen persona/personality.

I must admit over the years I valued Geoff Hamilton and I think Toby whateverhisnamewas, (just remembered it  Buckland) had some good tips and was worth watching.  The rest........... great (maybe) if you are a complete novice.

It is a pity as the TV can produce some good and informative programmes, but maybe it is just that on gardening as I know when they are talking b..................

All the best
Sue

[goodlife]

Right..I had another look at the program.. ::)
The pruning advise was bit hurried..yes..you would prune that way if you have established tree. But like the message that was sent by viewers..what if you have new tree? He didn't cover pruning enough.
One thing that really 'poked' at my eye..was his pea clearing..."cut the haulms off and pick what peas you want to use in the kitchen and rest goes into compost heap" NOOOOOO!
How about seed saving?..he would have had excellent opportunity to show basics how to save pea seeds for next year so you don't need to buy them anymore  ::)
Yesterday I had 'chatting' round in the allotment with members and I ended up explaining for quite few people how to save their own seeds on various things...people just don't know! Once they were explained many said..is it really that easy..? :o
Who knows..we may get our little seedsaving circle in lottie too.. ;D

[antipodes]

Yesterday I had 'chatting' round in the allotment with members and I ended up explaining for quite few people how to save their own seeds on various things...people just don't know! Once they were explained many said..is it really that easy..? :o
Who knows..we may get our little seedsaving circle in lottie too.. ;D

You know, I see on my site that there are many people that just buy in plants for their plot! Yes! Because I see the little planting reminders, that have come off of plastic containers of 8 or 10 plants, tomatoes, cabbages  etc. Some even buy in beetroot in modules! You can tell because they have exactly 12 identical beetroot in a row :D It must be hideously expensive! I no longer buy in any plants, even though I cannot yet own up to being able to save my own seed for everything, I usually manage it for tomatoes, and some beans and peas, although this year I didn't have enough peas to do that.