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
How to remove fruit tree suckers…the right way
Fruit tree suckers should be removed every year or they cause problems, but it’s important to do it the right way.
Before you plant a fruit tree, do these 5 steps
If you’re planting fruit trees this winter, there are a few steps to go through before you get started with soil preparation.
4 ways to use fruit tree prunings
Fruit tree prunings are often considered as ‘waste’ and even sent to landfill. Here’s three ways to capture the nutrient from your prunings.
Extend your fruit season with late-ripening fruit trees
Extending your fresh fruit season with late-ripening fruit trees is an easy way to increase food security and decrease risk.
6 Steps to Looking After Fruit Fly and Bird Nets
Fruit fly and bird nets are key to your fruit growing success. These 6 simple steps to look after them properly will help them last longer.
How to repair broken fruit trees
Breaks in your fruit tree can often be repaired, as long as you follow a few simple guidelines and provide good follow-up care.
Looking for a system to show you how to keep your trees happy, healthy, and productive?
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