Join Richard in this weeks veg grower podcast where this week its all about pruning.

You may remember at the beginning of November we started to read the rhs pruning and training as our book of the month. well this week we can put that book into action and prune some of our trees and bushes.

Time To Prune On The Allotment.

Using this book Richard starts off on the allotment with pruning the Autumn Raspberries, which are some of the easiest soft fruits to prune.

After that Richards attention turned to coppicing his hazel tree. Richard grows a Hazel tree to provide hazel nuts and bean sticks and coppicing is a great way to prolong the life of a tree and get hazel sticks from it.

Then Richard turned to his pear tree and gave that a tidy up ensuring that no brunches where rubbing against each other.

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Getting Clever With Pruning At Home

In the vegetable garden located at Richard's home, Richard has continued tackling the pruning tasks starting with Summer Raspberries.

Summer raspberries are not as easy to prune as Autumn Raspberries but Richard shares a little tip that might help make this job a little easier.

Richard also tackles pruning a grape vine which is a little trickier to prune and then has started a project of creating a three tiered espalier apple tree. Something that will really test Richards pruning skills, but hopefully create a fine looking tree too.

Recipe Of The Week

Chef Scott isn't available this week but Richard has stepped in and has created a recipe that uses parts of the Brussel sprout plants that we don't usually use, the leaves.

Ingredients

5 Fresh green leaves from a brussel sprout plant

A knob of butter

A splash of olive oil

1 garlic clove minced

Method

Cut the hard spine out of the leaves and discard. Take the remaining leaves and roll into a cigar then using a sharp knife slice into strips.

In a pan melt the butter with the olive oil, then add the minced garlic. Once the garlic is soft add the chopped leaves and stir. Cook until the leaves are tender and serve immediately.

Conclussion

As Richard wraps up this weeks podcast Richard share his final thoughts on the book. He particularly says how he feels much more confident with pruning many trees and bushes.

Richard also shares what the next book on the reading list is. Grow Veg Anywhere by Lucy Chamberlain is released on the 2nd January 2025 but is available for pre-ordering now. It promises to be a good read and one definitely worth checking out.

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