Grow Your Own Crops - Fruits Flashcards
When can you sow apples?
Mid autumn to mid spring
When can you harvest apples?
Mid summer to mid autumn
What are the two varieties of apples?
Dessert apples and cooking apples
What the two things to watch out for with apples?
Apple sawfly
Codling moth caterpillars
When can you sow pears?
Mid autumn to mid spring
When can you harvest pears?
Mid summer to end of autumn
What the three things to watch out for with pears?
Scab
Pear midge
Birds and wasps
When can you sow plums?
Start of winter to mid spring
When can you harvest plums?
Mid summer to mid autumn
What are the four types of plums?
Plums
Gages
Damsons
Bullaces
What the two things to watch out for with plums?
Plum leaf-curling aphid
Silver leaf
When can you sow cherries?
Start of winter to mid spring
When can you harvest cherries?
Mid summer to end of summer
Name the two types of cherry.
Acid cherries
Sweet cherries
What the three things to watch out for with cherries?
Cherry lugworms
Cherry blackly
Spotted wing drosophilia
When can you sow peaches and nectarines?
Start of winter to mid spring
When can you harvest peaches and nectarines?
Mid summer to mid autumn
What the two things to watch out for with peaches and nectarines?
Peach leaf curl
Glasshouse red spider mite
When can you sow quinces?
Start of winter to mid spring