We’re here to help you grow fruit that tastes as amazing as you remember from your childhood.
These are some of our best resources, to support you on your journey.
5 Key Steps to Healthy Fruit Trees Webinar
Imagine how amazing it would feel if you knew what your fruit trees really need…
Caring for fruit trees often doesn’t come naturally, even to experienced gardeners.
There are so many things that can go wrong. Lack of fruit, or fruit that’s spotty or bug-infested. Confusion about pruning and how to stop trees getting too big. Not being sure if your fruit trees need more water—or maybe less….
In this free workshop, we’ll show you the answers to these problems (and many more).
Subscribe to our FREE Weekly Fruit Tips newsletter
Subscribe to our Weekly Fruit Tips newsletter to help you keep your trees healthy and fruitful. You’ll soon be enjoying abundant harvests!
When you subscribe, you also receive our free ebook – 10 Key Steps to Growing Great Fruit (RRP $19.95) – a handy 10-step guide to making your fruit trees happy and healthy.
This useful ebook will give you answers about all the topics you need to know, from pests to pruning, and it’s completely free. Just fill out the form below to get instant access.
Bee Friendly
Do you want to make your garden as bee-friendly as possible?
This planting guide for European honeybees and Australian native pollinators by Mark Leech is invaluable. It’s a well-researched guide to the appropriate species to plant your climate is cool, temperate, humid, or arid.
This guide is chock-full of advice for creating bee-friendly gardens, urban areas, streetscapes, and rural settings. It includes a wide range of herbs, shrubs, and trees, both edible and non-edible.
The perfect companion to our ever-popular
Guide to Edible Flowering Plants.
Article Index
This is your handy reference guide to all the topics to do with fruit trees.
Grow Great Fruit members can use it to discover which week they can look forward to reading each article, and locate articles from previous issues. Annual members can head straight to any article to read immediately.
The searchable index is categorised by topic, or you can search on keywords. It includes the home study topics and the audio and video articles.
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Fruit Tree Database
A listing of hundreds of fruit trees giving growing characteristics, pollination, chill hours, blossom times, harvest times, and more.
Plan your home orchard so you know which varieties to add to spread the harvest, or which pollinators to choose to increase yields if pollination is an issue for you. It can also help with your detective work if you’re trying to figure out what varieties you have.
Blog
Growing fruit trees is a climate change solution
Feeling worried about climate change? Learn how growing your own fruit can help you make a significant difference in many meaningful ways.
How to make the simplest fruit dessert in the world
Summer calls for fruit desserts, and this is one of our simple “go to” recipes. We don’t have time to fuss, but we still love our food!
Netting fruit trees made simple for backyard growers
The sooner you net your fruit trees, the sooner you’ll get reliable crops. We explain the different systems to help you choose the right one.
The benefits of a loquat tree (and 5 delicious recipes)
Discover the many benefits that loquats can bring to your garden, plus enjoy 5 delicious recipes for using them when you have a glut.
Why are there no apricots on my tree?
There are four main reasons why your apricot tree has no fruit this year. Some are preventable, but sadly, some may not be!
Should you prune fruit trees in spring?
Answers to your pruning FAQ, like whether it’s OK to prune your fruit trees in spring, and should you remove wood in the centre of the tree?
Looking for a system to show you how to keep your trees happy, healthy, and productive?
Discover the Grow Great Fruit Program
