Natural England (Chris Wedge) has produced a series of very useful leaflets, which are available to download free of charge from www.naturalengland.org.uk Go to "publications" (at top of their home page). Then search "TINs" (at top of page) or go straight to http://naturalengland.etraderstores.com/NaturalEnglandShop/Search.aspx
The documents are called TINs:
- TIN012 - Traditional orchards: a summary
- TIN013 - Traditional orchards: site and tree selection
- TIN014 - Traditional orchards: planting and establishing fruit trees
- TIN015 - Traditional orchards: an introduction to pruning
- TIN016 - Traditional orchards: formative pruning of young trees
- TIN017 - Traditional orchards: maintenance pruning
- TIN018 - Traditional orchards: restoration and management of mature and neglected orchards
- TIN019 - Traditional orchards: fruit tree health
- TIN020 - Traditional orchards: orchards and wildlife
- TIN021 - Traditional orchards: glossary
Plus other relevant documents (cobnuts, pesticide drift etc). Eg. key in Orchards in “Search”.
