Aldi Cherry Tree

We have an old cherry orchard  at work that is well past its best. i would love to have a crack at getting it into a working orchard again but they just wont let us spend the money on new tree's  i guess we could save some seeds and start own own trees.  Im waiting for the blossoms again its breath taking to see.

No chance of pruning up the old ones to make them more productive I suppose? My son lived at Dobroyd castel in Todmeorden for a couple of years, and we made some good in-roads into rejuvenating some of the fruit tress in the old walled garden, taking it a bit at a time. Still got a lot of 'water shoots' but was just getting to grips with these when he moved again. Oh, well, let's hope th new onwners don't grub the whole lot up (no he didn't own it, that was abit misleading - it was owned by the Kadampa Buddhists at the time)

Are all these on your plot?!!!

yup, they are all on dwarfing root stock so shouldnt reach more than 15ft or so, some are being esplier along the edge of the plot, some are in the chicken pen to help provide shade, most are in the (not so mini orchard) which takes up a half plot whilst the grape vines will take up the other half, (though they are being planted rather close together), and thats not mentioning the soft fruit i have planted as to act as border hedging and wind brakes. In short i think i have pushed my plots to the absoulte limit. Though apart from pruning that is 10 rods that should be fairly low mainatnce. with 10 rods of no dig edged beds, and 5 rods given over to the chickens the total weeding area is only about 5 rods worth. still is nakering getting it all to that stage, and there is still mountains to do.