Training apples and pears on a wall, fence or tunnel is a happy blend of use and beauty. The framework is gently worked into shape earlier in the season, while the tissue is still delicately flexible, but now is the time to enhance future productivity of trained apples and pears by summer pruning, which involves shortening wayward longer growths arising from the main framework of branches. Head back such shoots of the current season's growth to four or five buds. This will encourage the pruned shoots to form fruiting buds, rather than meander on with yet more superfluous foliage.
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Uniquely unique? The Yorkshire grain silos transformed into a home that's a symphony in glass, steel and curvesAmid the beautiful countryside of North Yorkshire, on the edge of the Castle Howard Estate, The Silos is a property for which the word 'house' simply doesn't cut it. And that's not the only way in which it's made us throw out the dictionary.
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Polluting water executives now face up to two years in prison, but will the new laws make much of a difference?The Government has announced that water company executives caught covering up illegal sewage spills could now be imprisoned for two years, under new laws — but many still have their doubts.
