Monitoring your fruit trees regularly is one of your best tools in the fight against pests and diseases, as it helps you respond quickly before a problem has got out of control. Weekly visits throughout spring, summer and autumn help you get t [...]

Learning how frost affects your property can help you plan the best place to site fruit trees, and increase the amount of fruit you harvest. In this article we guide you in making a frost plan of your property. Read the article in Winter - Wee [...]

Monitoring your fruit trees regularly is one of your best tools in the fight against pests and diseases, as it helps you respond quickly before a problem has got out of control. Weekly visits throughout spring, summer and autumn help you get t [...]

We would never normally recommend moving a mature fruit tree as the risk of damage and the introduction of disease is so great that there is a good chance they will die, not to mention the huge logistical exercise involved in moving a mature t [...]

Hopefully this fruit season, you’ll achieve the satisfaction of being able to pick a successful, and delicious, crop of organic fruit from your own healthy trees. But for various reasons, that might not happen, or there might be some glitches. [...]

Orchard maintenance is just a grand way of describing the practice of keeping the area in and around your fruit trees clean, and free of disease producing conditions. It’s NOT about creating a manicured garden, because at the same time it’s a [...]

Summer is a great chance to notice whether your fruit trees are meeting your needs...maybe you want to produce a year’s supply of fruit for your family, provide shade for the kids play area, screen the yard from the neighbours, or ensure a ple [...]

Getting a crop of fruit from our trees depends on having enough bees and other pollinating insects in our garden, at the right time. Find the activity in Spring - Week 1.

Fruit trees produce fruit as a result of sexual reproduction, which means that the female parts of a flower have to be fertilised with the male pollen, usually from a different plant. For many fruit trees the pollen needs to come from a differ [...]

Lack of appropriate pollination is one of the leading causes of lack of fruit. This activity guides you to check that all the fruit trees in your garden have the right pollinising buddy. Find the activity in Autumn - Week 7.

We usually focus on tiny pests that damage our fruit, but it’s also important to think about the larger pests that can damage newly planted fruit trees, like kangaroos, hares and rabbits. There’s a number of ways you can protect your trees fro [...]

Knowing when your trees flower, and observing how well they flower, how long the blossom period lasts, and whether the flowers are affected by anything (e.g., rain, frost, hail, disease or wind) is a crucial step in becoming a good garden dete [...]