D's Edible Backyard
Fruit Tree Forum ContributionsD Forum ContributionsHelp - Try and get a hold of a Gardening book called The Practical Australian Gardener by Peter Cundall (ABC Gardening Australia show). It is a week by week guide on gardening telling you what to plant when, all about fertilising, pruning, pest control etc. If y..6714 days 16hrs Apricot tree - April is a pretty good time to prune apricots as they are lilkely to get diseases if they are dormant, so do it whilst there is still growth and the wounds can heal. (Summer & Autumn). Nectarines need to be pruned regularly to stimulate new growth as t..6714 days 16hrs Care of fruit trees - The red soil up here helps as well! I was under the impression that the dwarf granny smith would only grow to about 1.5m. If not, maybe a dwarf would be ok and I could always get another one later if we thought it was not enough? How close do the p..6723 days 2hrs Care of fruit trees - Thanks Correy. I have been using Eco Oil which seems to keep my trees relatively bug free when I use it regularly, although they are still only young. I have also found that when I mix up a bottle of this it goes much further than any other sprays. My..6723 days 5hrs Pruning pears - Just found out that Clensel is a safe garden insecticide that is a soap solution designed to suffocate pests such as aphids. So I presume you can get this at garden centres and hardware stores etc...6724 days 1hrs |
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