Online Workshop
Organic Pest & Disease
Control for Fruit Trees
Wednesday, October 29, 7 pm [AEDT]
WANTED: Solutions for these problems...
Are You Sick of Losing Fruit to Pests and Diseases?
😭 Do your fruit trees fail to produce fruit you can eat?
⏳ Are you wasting time on harvests that keep failing?
🐞 Do you want to grow organic food for your family (with no nasty chemicals)?
🪰 Are you confused about how to prevent damage from pests?
🍂 Do your fruit tree leaves look yellow, curly, or full of holes?
Do you wish you had a simple way to get healthy crops without all the stress?
Healthy fruit trees don’t just happen by chance, they’re the result of having a good system — one that’s easy to understand and helps you to stay one step ahead of pests and diseases.
Aphids, codling moth, leaf curl, and pear and cherry slug are just some of the many problems that can get between you and your delicious fruit. It’s so frustrating to put in all the hard work of planting, pruning, feeding, and watering your trees only to have the crop ruined by … something.
Often, you don’t even know the culprit. Leaves go curly, fruit gets spotty or falls off, or the tree just looks really sad.
It can be very disheartening.
In this practical, down-to-earth workshop, we’ll show you exactly how to protect your trees and get a great harvest, using proven organic techniques that work for all fruit trees.
But better than that, we’ll give you hope. 👍🏼 YES, it’s possible to grow fantastic fruit using completely organic methods. 👎🏼 No, you DON’T have to compromise your health or the environment by resorting to expensive and dangerous chemicals.
In fact, we’ll show you why they don’t work in the long run anyway, so both you and your garden are much better off without them.
You’ll leave full of confidence about your ability to grow incredible-tasting fruit with no nasties. This webinar will show you that healthy, organic fruit harvests are not only possible, but achievable!
What you'll get in the webinar
✅ The 6 key principles for keeping your fruit trees healthy
✅ The Grow Great Fruit “toolbox technique” for pest & disease prevention
✅ All-organic methods, strategies, and solutions
✅ Strategies for dealing with 6 of the most common pests
✅ Strategies for preventing 4 of the most common diseases
✅ How to choose and use spray units safely and effectively
✅ Safe organic sprays that actually work
✅ How to use tree guards to protect young trees
✅ Netting tips to keep your fruit safe from birds and animals
✅ Lots of real-life examples of the pests and diseases you need to learn about if you want to keep your fruit safe.
Plus, you'll get these valuable bonuses too!
Workbook
This fully interactive workbook is your practical companion to the Pest and Disease webinar. It helps you capture key principles, record notes, and turn the strategies you learn into an easy-to-follow action plan.
Bonus 1: Leaf Problem Identification Guide
This guide will help you to quickly identify leaf problems on your fruit trees. Includes straightforward descriptions of more than 40 causes of common leaf problems, with natural, organic solutions to fix them.
Bonus 2: Fruit Tree Organic Spray Program
This handy calendar summarises the main preventive sprays you need to do for your fruit trees. Understand which pests and diseases you need to prevent or treat, which sprays are safe and recommended to use in organic gardens, and when to spray for maximum effectiveness.
NOTE: Bonus 2 is available after the webinar.
We'll also answer your pest and disease questions!
By the end of this workshop, you’ll
🦋 Understand the life cycle of the 6 most common fruit tree pests
✔️ Know how to prevent the 4 most common diseases
🧰 Know the “Toolbox Technique” to conquer ANY pest or disease
☠️ Be aware of which sprays to use (and which to avoid at all costs)
😉 Feel confident about how to protect your fruit trees and keep them healthy.
Meet the presenters
Hi there, we’re Hugh and Katie Finlay, and we’ve been growing organic fruit on our small-scale family farm since 1998. Through years of experience growing fruit in all conditions, we’ve created the Grow Great Fruit organic fruit-growing system.
We needed to develop a system because we experienced so many disasters (as you can see from the gallery at the top of this page). We’ve been through infestations of codling moth, aphids, earwigs, and pear and cherry slug, to name a few. Then Queensland Fruit Fly turned up, and we had to learn how to deal with that!
Our trees have been attacked by birds (too many different species to mention), kangaroos, rabbits, hares, and goats.
We’ve got (lots) of first-hand experience managing diseases like leaf curl, blossom blight, brown rot, phytophthora, black spot, shothole, silver leaf—and many more!
Being an organic farm, we’ve had to find organic solutions to all these problems. But we did, and over time we’ve turned it into a replicable system that we want to share with you—our passion is helping gardeners get the most from every fruit tree in their garden!
What others say...
Excellent presentation today! Thank you so much for clear and concise information. You’ve answered a whole bunch of burning questions. I also really appreciated the advice of “don’t panic” on Aphids!
Hi Hugh and Katie, this was a great opportunity and very easy to both listen to and understand. I really enjoyed the idea of “knowing your enemy’s life cycle “. Thanks again.
That was really really excellent. I learned so much. Thank you!
Great organic solutions and education on common diseases.
Grow Great Fruit has for years been one of the best online resources for helping those growing fruit in the suburbs and across our rural hinterlands to crank up their household economy with greater abundance. In the process, many have become producers for their local communities. The relaunched website and programs are now even better; a great resource for those wanting to skill up or start from scratch as fruit producers.
Commonsense approach to controlling pests and diseases, prevention focused. I look forward to boosting my trees’ immune system and monitoring and then knowing some things I can do to help!
Terrific information! Thanks. We will definitely put into practice the advice on controlling pests in the orchard and garden.
Want more free workshops?
Learn the 5 Key Steps to Happy, Healthy Fruit Trees or create your Fruit Tree Action Plan with our Learn.Plan.Succeed 3-part live course.