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25.01.2022 Do your trees suffer from biennial fruiting with heavy crops one year, followed by lighter crops the following year? Thinning the young fruit on trees with heavy crops can result more consistent crops year after year. It can be one of the hardest things for the home gardener to do, but thinning the immature fruit from your trees with large crops will repay with larger, better quality fruit at harvest. So how do you do it? Carry out fruit thinning as soon as possible after fruit set. Remove tiny pea sized fruit by twisting, or snip off with secateurs when the weather is dry. The number of fruit you should leave varies, but try to leave enough spacing between the fruit for them to develop fully, usually about 5cm.

24.01.2022 Late winter and autumn are the two most important times to be fertilising your fruit trees. If you missed the late winter fertilise, you can still do it now, put it on the list for this weekend! Citrus trees are heavy feeders and require more frequent applications, -as often as once a month during the growing season. I like to use a mix of home-made compost, blood and bone, rock-dust, aged sheep or cow manure and worm castings. If you are looking for a commercial product for your trees, Neutrog’s Gygantic is a great local South Australian product. Combine with a good quality compost for water retention, mulch, and always water in well. Perhaps fertilise before rain is forecast and let nature do some of the work for you! If you look after your trees they will look after you with beautiful crops of delicious fruit.

20.01.2022 What Fruit and Nut Trees grow well in Adelaide home gardens? If you love the thought of home grown fruit and nuts but are not sure what to plant, here are some ideas. Adelaide has the ideal climate for stone fruits so try Nectarine, Peach, Apricots and Plums. If space allows, consider choosing early, mid-season, and late varieties to extend the season. A well planned garden could see you eating stone fruits from November through to March and any excess can be shared or pr...eserved. Apples, Pears, Quince, Mulberry, Loquat, and Citrus also do very well here as well as Mediterranean plants such as Olives, Grapes, and my personal favourites -Pomegranate and Fig. Fruit trees usually require a sunny location but if you have a partially shady spot in the garden try Feijoa a large evergreen shrub with showy flowers and delicious fruit. Another consideration when planting fruit trees is whether it requires a pollinator. Apricots, Nectarines and most Peaches are self-fertile, but plums, apples, pears and quince usually need another specific variety of the same fruit as a pollinator. If you are thinking about a nut tree, Macadamias, Almonds and Walnuts can be grown very successfully here and are well worth thinking about. A Macadamia is my choice, they do not require netting and the nuts fall to the ground for easy harvest. I encourage you to support your local nursery and get good local advice. A good nursery will help you choose trees with suitable rootstocks and advise on pollination. See more

16.01.2022 For all you sweet citrus lovers out there, now is the time for pruning. The soil is warm and at this time of year trees should be generating lots of healthy new growth. With citrus it can be difficult to know when to prune they are often either in fruit or flower. The timing of pruning can be difficult to determine, but generally regular pruning in late spring or early summer is the best maintenance. While you are tending your citrus, check them over for any disease, gi...ve them a feed with an organic fertiliser and some compost, give them a good soak and top up your woody mulch. Make sure you are feeding regularly, every 1-2 months is ideal but not while they are flowering or they will drop their fruit, wait until the fruit are fingernail size. Keep grass well away from the trunk of the tree, preferably out past the drip line, or it will be competing with the tree for moisture and nutrients. Now is the time for planting semi tropical fruits including avocado and citrus. Make sure you choose a sunny spot with good soil drainage. Citrus don’t like wet feet! But don’t delay; planting by the end of October gives your citrus a better chance of establishing a strong root system before the hot weather hits. To arrange a pruning quote, call Amanda at Willunga Fruit Tree Pruning on 0412 009 426.

02.01.2022 If you are thinking of adding a deciduous Fruit Tree or 2 to your garden there is still time, but try and plant before mid-August. Soils start slowly warming up in August, stimulating feeder root growth and your tree out of dormancy. Don't forget that your new tree, although small, still needs a prune to balance the roots that are removed when dug up in the Nursery. See the video in my earlier post by Sophie Thompson for how to plant and prune your bare-rooted tree or call us for help.