Tag: Frostschutzberegnung

How to protect them apple trees

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Imagine: It’s been spring for a while, quite balmy weather, and all of a sudden one night the temperature drops. You drive to the bakery, everything seems normal except that it is colder than the days before, and then you come across this:

This is an espalier fruit (apple trees) field. The plants, the blooms are covered in ice. On the ground lies frost. But it ends abruptly at the fence and the flowering bushes around are frost free.

Turns out this is an ingenious way to use irrigation. Ice, it turns out, protects the blooms and hence the possibility of them developing into fruit.

Ice covers the twigs, the blooms, the new leaves.

FOWC with Fandango: Irrigation

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Protective Frost

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It hasn’t been cold enough yet this year so I had to go back about 18 month when the fruit trees had already started to flower and a cold snap was on the way. The way to protect the blooms is to put on the sprinklers and make the forming ice protect the leaves and shoots.

Here is a post from then with more photos: Ice, Ice, Baby

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Frost

Locks of Wool

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This is another photo of the cold morning after the cold night we had last week, threatening the new blooms on the espaliered trees in the orchard. The clouds are, I think, cirrocumulus floccus (meaning “look of wool”).

Weekend Sky

Ice, Ice, Baby

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I drove past one of the orchards in the area yesterday morning and was greeted with winter wonderland. We had bright, freezing cold nights these past days and the fruit growers used frost protection irrigation to protect the shoots and blooms on the apple and peach trees.

The fifteenth #BrightSquare

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