This is how you support heavy branches

Support apple branches gently

In order not to damage the branches or the fruit on the apple tree, wooden supports are ideal. You can make these yourself from the following materials relatively easily:

• Construction strips made of untreated wood
• hammer
• Nails with sufficient length
• Hand or electric saw

Use the construction strips to form T-shaped supports and fix them with the nails. Then insert the supports into the ground under rich apple branches so that the heavily draped branch can rest on the support. A bit of bast or foam protects the sensitive ones from rubbing off in the wind Tree bark. In addition, you can fix the branch to the respective support with binding twine.

Support as a system and growth habit

At a Trellis apple trees become that growth the Seedlings deliberately steered in such a way that results from the combination of Cutting technique and the Tie up results in a stable branch structure. It is true that the branches of an espalier tree are usually kept so short that it is not enough to break off branches under the weight of one

harvest can come, but in the case of the trellis, the tensioned transverse wires also develop their supportive effect.

Support a crooked apple tree

Sometimes it can be due to wind damage or years of neglect Winter- and Summer cuts lead to a lopsidedness of older apple trees. In such a case, you should try the tree with a cut to rejuvenate. If this is not possible for various reasons, a T-support or a wooden stake can give the tree stability against further wind damage.

Tips & Tricks

A young apple tree should match the appropriate Topiary do not actually need any supports at first. However, it can Sapling securely attached to a sturdy wooden stake with binding raffia and protected from the effects of wind and weather during the growth phase after the planting to be protected.