Do Apple Trees Have Fallow Year's?

Apple trees usually grow too much fruit. If all the apples on a tree grow to maturity, the tree exhausts itself and produces a much-reduced crop the following year. Home gardeners need to be ruthless about thinning young fruit in early summer so that next year's crop is normal.

Do apple trees have off years?

Apple trees usually grow too much fruit. If all the apples on a tree grow to maturity, the tree exhausts itself and produces a much-reduced crop the following year. Home gardeners need to be ruthless about thinning young fruit in early summer so that next year's crop is normal.

Which apple trees are biennial?

Some apple cultivars, are prone to biennial bearing including 'Blenheim Orange', 'Bramley's Seedling' and 'Laxton's Superb' but almost any apple or pear can fall into this pattern of cropping.

Chloe Bennett

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