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Home Orchard Design
Plan where to put your fruit trees for long term success by understanding your climate, weather, soil and garden.
With good planning and design, you can have fresh deciduous fruit from late spring to early winter in a temperate climate, if your fruit trees are in the right place with the right protection.
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Ample Apricots
Everything you need to know about growing and eating organic apricots
Imagine that summer taste explosion of sweet, ripe apricots, straight from the tree. There’s nothing quite as special as a beautiful and productive apricot tree in the garden, and even one tree can supply enough fruit for your family to eat fresh and preserve.
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Plump Pears and Quirky Quinces
Growing tips and recipes for organic pears and quinces
Longing for fresh fruit that will grow in autumn or winter? Do you want fruit that’s easy to grow with minimal input? Pears and quinces ripen late, store well, are hardy, and preserve marvelously; they deserve to be included in every serious food-grower’s garden!
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Cheeky Cherries
Get the juice on growing and preserving organic cherries
Cherries are tiny taste bombs! They are one of the most health-giving fruits to grow, not to mention the most delicious! Find out how easy it is to care for your cherry trees, and how to fill your pantry with delicious cherry treats.
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Precious plums
Everything you need to know about growing organic plums
Plum trees just about grow themselves—of all the fruit, they are the ones that need the least specialised care. Which may be why they’re so often ignored or underestimated!
Properly valued, plums are a practical and easy addition to your garden, and can add huge variety and colour to your dining table.
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Winter Bundle
Give your fruit trees the best possible start in life.
The first 3 years of your fruit tree’s life are the most important, from site selection through to planting, pruning and aftercare. Caring properly for young fruit trees will set them up for a lifetime of productivity and health.
This bundle includes the six courses that all new fruit tree owners need, plus a hefty discount so you can save yourself a bundle!
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Grafting Bundle
Spring is grafting time, and because we want EVERYONE to learn how to grow their own fruit trees for free, we’ve bundled together all of our grafting short courses.
Growing your own trees is easier than you think – these are skills that anyone who can hold a knife can learn.
The bundle includes all 5 courses:
– Grow Your Own Fruit Trees for Free
– Whip-tongue grafting
– Cleft grafting
– Bark grafting
– Bud graftingLearn the ancient art of grafting, and you’ll never have to buy another fruit tree!
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Apple Fermentation Masterclass
Get the theory and practice of turning a glut of apples into a range of drinks that can be enjoyed by kids and adults alike.
Do you grow or forage apples? Would you love to learn some new ways of converting your harvest into a range of delicious—and health giving—products?
In this 1.5-hour Masterclass, guest expert Paul “Speedy” Ward shows you how to turn your apple crop into juice, cider, apple cider vinegar, and shrub.
He explains easy-to-use techniques that don’t need loads of expensive equipment, because this Masterclass aims to return the lost art of cider and vinegar making to the home-grower, where it belongs.