Your goal, in choosing your fruit trees, is to match them to your environment – both the rootstock (bottom) and scion (tops). When well matched, your trees thrive with very little inputs from you – easy orcharding awaits! To do this well, you need to understand: We tend to focus all our attention on the […]
How to Plant + Prune Deciduous Fruit Trees
By | LastUpdated June 1, 2023
Fruit trees perform better by far when grown in native soil – ie soil that’s original to your site. Deciduous fruit trees don’t need compost + fert around their roots – the original soil is perfect especially if you’ve matched your rootstocks to it. What they need is a fungal environment – one created by […]
Boost Your Fruit Trees This Autumn
By | LastUpdated May 1, 2023
Leaves are turning gold and starting to fall, marking the end of a cycle of growth and the beginning of another as the leaf donates its goodness back to earth. All those tiny openings left by detached leaves makes it a prime time to get a biological spray on – nothing beats it for strong, […]
Make a Frost Shelter for Young Citrus + Avo’s
By | LastUpdated April 1, 2023
Autumn is the time of year to think about tucking your young citrus and tender subtropicals (eg: tamarillo, banana, passionfruit + avocado) in a cosy house to protect them from the bitter cold of winter and spring. Where night temps drop below 10 °C for extended periods of time, I’d be making a shelter. Small, […]
