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Stephen Hayes of Fruitwise heritage apples presents part 2 of pruning the Bramley apple tree.
Wear gloves when using the sharp saw. Upward facing branch. Up against the collar. be careful when working in the middle of a tree. Removing branches that are growing in to the centre. Creating space by removing one out of each pair of crossing branches.
Pruning the bramley, famous cooking apple. Red flush, good quality cooking apple, ripens to yellow sweetness if kept long enough. Challenging tree. Space between the trees. Planted 10 years ago. The bramley is a big tree. In an ordinary garden you may want to put it on a small rootstock.
Each year we want the tree to do three thing. Produce new growth, formation of new buds , and fruit on old buds. Bramley is a tip bearing tree so don’t go round snipping off all the tips that’s the wrong way to prune it. Take out downward growing branches. Or any too high. We don’t go up trees with ladders any more.
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