It’s Time To Feed Your Fruit Trees
Edible Backyard It’s Time To Feed Your Fruit Trees The orchard is waking up. Hurrah! blossom will soon be here. The trees sleep is over, and so is the gardeners. Its time to get on the job. One of the...
View ArticleMake a Harvest Calendar
Edible Backyard Make a Harvest Calendar Before you buy fruit trees, make a super useful harvest calendar for a clear overview of the fruiting year. A big help in choosing varieties that stagger the...
View ArticleIntroducing Fruit Trees 101
Edible Backyard Introducing Fruit Trees 101 Thriving fruit trees and abundant harvests spring off the back of a solid set up – this is what Fruit Trees 101 is all about. In this little video course, I...
View ArticleSeptember Fruit Tree To-do List
Edible Backyard September Fruit Tree To-do List Manage height Spring is an excellent time to tame the height of deciduous fruit trees because trees respond with gentle growth. They’ve already used a...
View ArticlePlant Citrus, Prune Tamarillos + Feed Fruit Trees
Edible Backyard Plant Citrus, Prune Tamarillos + Feed Fruit Trees Citrus and Subtropical Planting Time is Here! Years ago, I read an article by Russel Fransham from Subtropica that advocated delaying...
View ArticleWhat to Do About Leaf Curl
Edible Backyard What to Do About Leaf Curl Leaf curl will be showing up in your stonefruit about now – spring being the time when fungus comes out to play. Here’s my all round approach to managing...
View ArticleHow to Summer Prune Stonefruit
Edible Backyard How to Summer Prune Stonefruit Plums, Apricots, Peaches, Nectarines, Almonds and Cherries are all stonefruit and best pruned in summer when they finish fruiting. There's a few good...
View ArticleHow To Store Apples
Edible Backyard How To Store Apples A store of eating apples to draw on through Autumn and Winter is deeply satisfying, and the best kai of all – an apple as nature intended! Storing is, however,...
View ArticleMake a Winter Shelter for Young Citrus + Avo’s
Edible Backyard Make a Winter Shelter for Young Citrus + Avo’s Autumn – the time of year when we need to think about tucking our young citrus and tender subtropicals (eg: tamarillo, banana,...
View ArticleAutumn Fruit Tree Care
Edible Backyard Autumn Fruit Tree Care Here’s a quick checklist of fruit tree jobs for you to ensure you are taking care of all the essentials that’ll have you grow yourself a juicy citrus crop and...
View ArticleA Pre Prune Ponder
Edible Backyard A Pre Prune Ponder Hang out with your deciduous fruit trees this month to consider your winter pruning. What a difference this virtual run through makes on pruning day! Regardless of...
View ArticleHow to Space Your Fruit Trees
Edible Backyard How to Space Your Fruit Trees There’s not a gardener alive who hasn’t squashed too many trees into too small an area! Those little wee seedlings defy us to give them space, but give it,...
View ArticleJune’s Fruit Tree To-Do List: Your Top 5
Edible Backyard June’s Fruit Tree To-Do List: Your Top 5 Woodash + A Beneficial Mow Lightly sprinkle lime or wood ash from the fire, over top of fallen leaves and roughly mow. Leave the clippings where...
View ArticleHow To Prune An Avocado
Edible Backyard How To Prune An Avocado If there is one thing I’ve learnt over the years teaching pruning, it’s that when I start to talk about old wood, new wood, two year old wood – your mind...
View ArticleMy Favourite Pruning Tools
Edible Backyard My Favourite Pruning Tools The right tools for the job, make all the difference. Loppers This is where you spend the money, if you can. These are industry standard loppers, made right...
View ArticleMy Healthy Fruit Tree Game Plan
Edible Backyard My Healthy Fruit Tree Game Plan A diverse environment around your deciduous fruit trees is the answer to all your fruit tree problems. Yes! Truly! All of them! Get a bit wild, my...
View ArticleHow to Use Fungicides: Copper, Lime Sulfur + ACV
Edible Backyard How to Use Fungicides: Copper, Lime Sulfur + ACV Cankers, oozing sap, fruit scab, fruit rot, leaf spots or leaf curl are all signs bacteria or fungus are ruling the roost in your...
View ArticleAugust Fruit Tree Care
Edible Backyard August Fruit Tree Care If you blink you’ll miss it! The early plums are on the move, brewing up another batch of beautiful blossom. For those of you pondering copper sprays – this is...
View ArticleHow + When to Prune Citrus
Edible Backyard How + When to Prune Citrus No matter what tree you prune, or how confident you are – always begin with a ponder. That is, go walk around the tree and study it. Pay attention to 2 things...
View ArticleSeptember Fruit Tree To-do List
Edible Backyard September Fruit Tree To-do List The story of your fruit harvest starts now – in the rising of the sap and the swelling of the buds. It’s a tale told by the bees, as they go blossom to...
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