Fruit Trees + Berries

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How To Store Apples

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Pruning

How to Summer Prune Stonefruit

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Pruning

5 Golden Pruning Rules

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When + How to Feed Citrus

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How (+ When) to Prune Citrus

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Notching: A Cool Pruning Trick

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Fruit Trees + Berries

How to Choose Fruit Trees

Homemade

How to Make Fermented Nettle Tea

Stinging nettle is the food gardeners, best mate. Loaded to the brim with minerals and vitamins, at service to the plant kingdom entire, and you and I also - a little wilted nettle with a fried egg is a fine spring breakfast. Amazing at anytime in its cycle for foliar feeds,

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How to Prune Tamarillos

Fruit Trees + Berries

My Healthy Fruit Tree Game Plan

Healthy fruit trees come from you taking care of all the following nuts and bolts. Not just one or two, but all of them! An environment such as this isn't built in a day. Mostly we've inherited monocultures with no spine - weakened via over fertilisation and

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How to Space Your Fruit Trees

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Pests + diseases

What to Do About Leaf Curl

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Pruning

How To Prune A Grape

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How to Pick and Store Plums

There's a small window, a perfect moment when fruit is ripe for picking. The only way you catch it is by keeping an eye on your crops. With a plum harvest, I reckon it's just before it hits the ground. Pick your plums when the skin

Fruit Trees + Berries

How To Bird Net Your Fruit Trees

There is only one sure way to keep the birds off your fruit - and that's to bird net. I write this today because this is the question on your lips, and you're all so disgruntled when I answer bird net! Why do you all hate bird

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Pruning

The First Espalier Prune of the Season

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Fruit Trees + Berries

How To Thin Fruit (And Why You Need To)

Pests + diseases

Preventing + Managing Fungal Disease

By far and away the most common cause of garden disease is airborne fungi. The mild moist conditions of spring set the scene for primary infections of rust, black spot, leaf curl, shot hole, brown rot and other fungal delights. Great news is fungal disease can on the whole be

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Pruning

How To Prune Raspberries

Fruit Trees + Berries

Grow Your Own Peach Tree

Peaches can be grown from stones - so fun to grow your own tree, but other advantages abound. Seedling peach trees are more robust and disease resistant, especially if you choose a stone from a locally grown peach tree that is hardy and vigorous. Worthwhile also if you want to grow

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How To Grow Avocado

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How To Grow Citrus, Naturally

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The Perfect Raspberry Frame

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Mineral Rich Comfrey: A Garden Essential!