Fruit Trees + Berries

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Pruning

Notching: A Cool Pruning Trick

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How to Choose Fruit Trees

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How to Plant + Prune Deciduous 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

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Pruning

How to Prune Tamarillos

Fruit Trees + Berries

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 friends and loose the tidy. Engage as broad a range of plants, trees, shrubs, a pond if you can - even a small

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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

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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

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Pruning

The First Espalier Prune of the Season

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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

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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

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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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Companions

Mineral Rich Comfrey: A Garden Essential!