Webinar: 15th of March 2022
Practical workshop: 30th to 31st of August 2022, in the UK.
Webinar
The all day-webinar about Trained Fruit was hosted by PlantNetwork and had these topics:
- The importance of wall fruit in the history of kitchen gardens
- Exploiting microclimates for a wide range of fruit: how a new design utilises historic knowledge to react to affects of climate change
- Fruit growing as an art form
- Walls, wires, tags and trellises
- Choice of cultivars and rootstocks. Pruning Lorette v. modified Lorette
- Indoor trained fruit: peaches, grapes and figs
- Fruit growing in Community settings: training people to train fruit
Trained fruit in the Walled Kitchen Garden at Audley End Photo: Anne Stine Solberg
Speakers:
Susan Campbell, Walled Kitchen Garden Network
Andy Lewis, The Newt, Somerset
Hilary Theaker, Hampton Court
Ceridwen Davies, Dyffryn Gardens, National Trust
Jim Arbury, RHS Horticultural Specialist, Wisley Gardens
Mick Brown Production Garden Manager and team, Chatsworth Gardens
Hervé Mauclère, Yvette Vallée Community Orchard
See the program for more information.
Workshop
Audley End, not far from the city of Cambridge, was the venue for the Trained Fruit in Historic Kitchen Gardens-workshop. Their kitchen garden is over a hectare, with espaliered pears, condons, fan trained plums and figs and apples, – in other words – the perfect venue for our practical workshop in August.
