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Awesome Apples
$24.00 incl. GSTApple growing answers, from pruning to pests
Imagine never having to buy apples again! With just a few healthy and productive apple trees in your garden, it’s easy to grow a year’s supply for your family.
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Perfect Peaches
$19.00 incl. GSTHow to care for your peach trees from pruning through to harvest
OK, who has a special peach or nectarine memory? These versatile fruits are a popular garden tree for very good reason—with the right care (at the right time) they’ll provide abundant crops of delicious fruit year after year.
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Ample Apricots
$19.00 incl. GSTEverything 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
$19.00 incl. GSTGrowing 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
$14.00 incl. GSTGet 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
$14.00 incl. GSTEverything 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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Organic Citrus Manual – FREE!
$0.00 incl. GSTA professional manual for organic citrus growers, by David Madge
Citrus are one of the most common and loved backyard fruit trees, but can also be some of the most problematic. We tracked down this incredible free resource, which draws on the knowledge of experienced organic citrus growers from around Australia, to answer your in-depth citrus questions.
© 2009 Rural Industries and Research Development Corporation
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Apple Fermentation Masterclass
$19.00 incl. GSTGet the theory and practice of apple fermenting
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.
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How to Grow Subtropical Fruits Masterclass
$25.00 incl. GSTWant to grow subtropical fruit?
Would you love to add some of these exotic, delicious, interesting plants to your garden, but you’re not quite sure how to start?
In this 1.5 hour online Masterclass, guest presenters Paul Daley and Andre Madeira cover all the basics of creating the right environment for subtropical plants – even if you don’t live in the subtropics!
Drawing on an understanding of original food forest cultures, Paul and Andre explain the principles and practices of establishing a custom-designed food forest that suits your lifestyle goals. They take you through the steps required to create a thriving backyard food forest, and show you how to scale it to suit your situation, whether you want a single food forest guild based on just one fruit tree, or are aiming for a full-scale food forest.
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Fruit Tree Pollination Guide
$37.00 incl. GSTThis handy guide lists pollination partners for hundreds of common (and uncommon) fruit trees, giving you the information you need to select the right trees for a fruitful backyard orchard.
Pollination partners for fruit trees are one of those things that most gardeners have heard of, but few really understand! Knowing if your tree needs pollination can be a complete mystery. It’s one of the ‘hidden’ reasons for fruit trees failing to produce fruit.
Many fruit trees need a compatible partner nearby to help them set fruit — it’s nature’s version of matchmaking. In this guide, we demystify how pollination works, explain which trees need partners (and which don’t), and help you choose the best pollination companions for a thriving, productive home orchard.
The guide includes:
- Definitions of common pollination-related terms;
- Things that can affect pollination;
- Stages of flowering;
- Order of blossom times for deciduous fruits;
- Pollination needs for different types of fruit trees;
- Comprehensive lists of pollination partners for most common varieties.
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Comprehensive Guide to Fruit Ripening Dates
$37.00 incl. GSTThis is one of our most useful resources! It includes the ripening dates (and order) of hundreds of common fruit trees to guide your tree selection. This guide makes it possible to choose the right trees for almost year-round fruit harvests while avoiding gluts and fruit ripening at inconvenient times.
The actual date that a variety ripens for harvest can vary wildly. It’s affected mainly by your climate, but also microclimate and the conditions of each season. The beauty (and usefulness) of this guide lies in the fact that regardless of where you live, the order of ripening of different varieties stays about the same.
This guide includes ripening charts for:
- More than 200 apple varieties
- More than 60 apricots
- Ripening sequence for blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries
- 75+ cherry varieties
- Over 50 varieties of citrus, including lemons, oranges, cumquats, mandarins, grapefruit, and tangelos
- Almost 200 varieties of peach and nectarine
- 200 varieties of pear and quince
- Almost 150 varieties of plum
- Harvest sequence for subtropicals, including avocados, custard apples, feijoas, figs, mangoes, and mulberries.
This is just a selection of available varieties—there are many thousands of fruit tree varieties available in the world. In this guide, we’ve focused on trees that are likely to be available for you to buy. Wherever possible, we’ve included trees from many of the well-known nurseries around Australia, and in some cases overseas as well.
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Pollinate & Harvest Bundle
$69.00 incl. GSTGet more fruit, for longer!
The Pollinate & Harvest Bundle combines two of our most popular garden planning guides — Pollination Partners and Fruit Ripening Dates. Used together, and alongside the information you note down about your existing fruit trees, these handy guides will help you get the most out of your garden.
The focus with this bundle is choosing the right fruit tree varieties, matching them for perfect pollination, and extending your harvest as long as possible. Whether you’re planting new trees or making the most of the ones you have, this bundle is your shortcut to bigger, better, longer-lasting harvests.