Georgie came round last weekend with his extendable Stihl pruning chainsaw and we did battle on the one and only apple tree on the farm. We won, I think.
It is a Yellow Transparent, known as the August Apple around here. An old variety not so often seen now. It's an early apple and does not store well - in fact, the apples go from superb to not so nice seemingly in a matter of a few days.
The tree probably hasn't been touched in 20 years, so was very overgrown and tangled. The apples it gave were plentiful, but small and many showed disease. There is a lot more work to be done over the next few years to bring it's shape back, but we couldn't do too much for fear of stressing it. What we did do looks brutal enough!
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