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
Mending broken branches in fruit trees
Broken branches are a common occurrence in fruit trees, caused by too much fruit or clumsy animals, but they can often be repaired.
How to make biochar: two backyard methods
Save money and turn waste wood into black gold. Here’s detailed instructions for how to make two biochar systems in your backyard.
Why am I seeing so many double fruits in my fruit trees?
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes In spring when you're doing your fruit thinning you may notice a lot of double fruits in your fruit trees. It seems to be more common in some seasons than others. It's also sometimes called twin fruit, or conjoined fruit. We often...
What is permaculture and why does it matter to fruit growers?
Learn how permaculture principles will add to your fruit-growing journey, from basic tree care to scaling up for self-sufficiency.
The downside of drape netting fruit trees
Netting your fruit trees is a great idea, but can have unintended consequences if you don’t remove them in a timely fashion.
How to design a fruit tree guild
Get inspired to create beautiful and productive guilds around your fruit trees to support their health and your whole garden.