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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Blog
A visit to Petty’s Heritage Apple Orchard
Petty’s Orchard in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs houses a working organic farm and one of Victoria’s best heritage apple collections.
The subtropical fruit tree experts
Sub-tropical fruit trees include dozens of exotic and interesting varieties that can expand the diversity in your garden.
How to Make Pink Lady Apples Pink
Sometimes pink lady apples are dark pink, sometimes light pink, from the same tree. We explain the reasons behind this mysterious occurrence.
Natural fertility for fruit trees in Autumn
Autumn is a great time to apply some natural fertility to your fruit trees before they go to sleep for the winter.
Women can be farmers too
Katie jumped at the chance to be part of an ABC series breaking down stereotypes and encouraging girls to be farmers.
When should you pick your almonds?
Picking almonds at the right time is key to good storage, and recording the names of the varieties you plant helps too.
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