Martin Hayes has a lifetime‘s experience of planting and pruning fruit trees. In this free workshop running from 10am , he will show you the basics of how to prune and why, and also when to prune. There are four sites to visit, so there will be plenty of opportunity for you to practise what he preaches.
Visit the Eventbrite workshop page for tickets.
Please bring your own pruning tools (secateurs, pruning saw) if possible. And bring warm clothing, gardening gloves and waterproof footwear. There will be some tools available for those without their own. Please be prepared to help tidy up the fallen branches as well!
Fruit trees at Fruit & Nut community garden, Cilgerran, north Pembrokeshire
- Meet at the Hope Garden by Pen Y Foidr allotments 10am
- It would be good if you could park in the Cilgerran Lower Car Park and then walk, as there isn’t much parking at the allotments
- Pruning half a dozen trees near the Hope Garden
- Pruning at Fruit & Nut community garden
- Pruning at Parc y Pwmp. This is the village park at the back of the Cardiff Arms pub
- Free vegan & gluten free soup, bread, hot drink lunch at Wildlife Centre. Lifts available
- Pruning the fruit trees at the Welsh Wildlife Centre.
Martin really is an orchardist to the stars, he has worked with the Spencer family of Althorp, on their walled garden.
Agenda
- 10:00-10:05
Meet Hope Garden - 10:05-10:45
Prune fruit trees by Hope Garden - 10:45-11:30
Prune Fruit and Nut Community Garden trees - 11:30-12:20
Prune village park Parc Y Pwmp trees - 12:30-13:15
Lunch (soup) at Wildlife Centre cafe - 13:15-14:00
Pruning Wildlife Centre orchard