2014 begins with the medlar

I arrived in St Jean Lasseille yesterday, and in beautiful sunshine today (T-shirt weather in January!) have begun the winter gardening. The first thing to be tackled was the medlar, whose winter treatment so far consists of:
- gathering the fruit (almost two buckets full) - already bletted by being left on the tree
- clearing the base of the tree
- light pruning (just removing twigs which crossed each other)
- spraying with insecticide and tar oil
- preparing the fruit for jelly making