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realenglishfruit.co.uk has a lot of information on growing fruit trees in a garden or on an estate. This information is freely available to all readers.
We can also provide tailored services, subject to payment. If you have bought a plot of land and you would like to plant a small traditional orchard with local varieties, we can simplify the process. In fact, growing fruit successfully using organic techniques can be complicated. With our help, growing your own fruit can be made much simpler. See our Consulting page for further information.
Feel free to contact us with your questions. Just send a message by email (enquiries@realenglishfruit.co.uk) or using our web contact form. We will provide an estimate for our services, which can be paid by bank transfer or cheque.
Areas in which we often provide services and solve problems by means of our consultancy are:
- the creation of new traditional garden orchards
- community projects focusing on local fruit as food
- care, renovation and pruning of existing fruit trees
- supply of fruit trees through top-quality nurseries.
May 2022 – garden orchard update
May is a critical time of year for fruit trees. Newly-planted trees need special care and regular watering, and even established trees may need help with water and mulch. Fruit trees are now well into the various stages of flowering and or growth. Lots of new green leaves are forming. These are very important for the trees’ well-being. Parasites can be particularly problematic, particularly those that damage foliage. The leaves are excellent indicators as to how the trees are coping with various pests and diseases. Pheromone traps should be place in apple and plum trees.. Click here to read all our fruit growing tips for May.
Growing quality fruit trees
This website presents information on the entire spectrum of fruit trees for the garden:
- advice on which trees to plant
- advice on how to plan a new garden orchard
- planting fruit trees
- how to deal with fruit tree diseases
- how to look after older trees
- pruning fruit trees
- thinning
- training fruit trees as espalier, fan, cordon or stepover
- and much more.
Use the menu at right or top, or the site map below (scroll down) to find the topics you need.
Video channel
The videos published on this website illustrate the critical stages of fruit development, from the period from blossom to fruit formation, in a chronological sequence throughout the year. Click here to see the videos currently available.
Watch a video tutorial about how to control aphids on fruit trees.
Site map
Consulting
Consulting – advice by Dan Neuteboom on fruit growing in gardens and orchards
Blog – news, articles, and examples of Dan’s consultancy
Video channel
Video channel – videos in which Dan Neuteboom explains many aspects of fruit growing, providing tips on pruning, thinning, pollination, grafting and more. With camera work by John Paddy.
Planning a garden orchard
Index of fruit tree varieties – from Adams Pearmain to Worcester
How to choose which apple varieties to plant
How to choose the best site for fruit trees
Garden law, high hedges act, height restrictions
Climate
Soil
Shelter belts
Rootstocks and tree size
How to buy fruit trees
Trees for a tree house
Growing fruit trees
- Aphids
- Apple sawfly
- Apple scab
- Apple splitting
- Apricot dieback
- Armillaria honey fungus
- Bacterial canker
- Bird damage
- Bitter pit
- Blossom wilt
- Boot lace fungus
- Brown rot
- Canker on apple trees
- Canker on plums, greengages, damson
- Capsid bugs
- Cherry blackfly
- Cherry fruit drop
- Cherry splitting
- Codling moth
- Collar rot
- Foxes
- Greenfly on apples and pears
- Ivy on fruit trees
- Mealy aphid on plums, greengages, damson
- Mildew on apples
- Peach leaf curl disease
- Pear canker
- Pear leaf blister mite
- Pear midge
- Pear scab
- Pear virus
- Pigeon damage on plum trees
- Plum moth
- Plum sawfly
- Red spider on apricots
- Scab
- Silver leaf on plums
- Wasps
- Whitefly
- Woolly aphid
Natural and eco-sustainable solutions:
Fruit growing year – a month-by-month list of tasks in a garden orchard
- January fruit tree care tips
- February fruit tree care tips
- March fruit tree care tips
- April fruit tree care tips
- May fruit tree care tips
- June fruit tree care tips
- July fruit tree care tips
- August fruit tree care tips
- September fruit tree care tips
- October fruit tree care tips
- November fruit tree care tips
- December fruit tree care tips
How to plant a tree bought online
- How to train free-standing fruit trees
- How to train espalier fruit trees
- How to train espalier apple trees
- How to train fan-shaped fruit trees
- How to train cordon fruit trees
- How to train stepover fruit trees
- How to train apricots as fan-shaped trees
- How to prune apple trees
- How to prune espalier apple trees
- How to prune pear trees
- How to prune espalier pear trees
- How to prune plum trees
- How to prune fig trees
- How to prune cherry trees
- How to prune apricot trees
- How to prune espalier apricot trees
- How to prune mulberry trees
- How to prune crab apple trees
- How to prune quince trees
- How to prune medlar trees
- How to prune walnut trees
- Radical pruning for restoring old trees
How to get trees into production sooner
How to grow an edible hedge (fruiting hedge)
- How to grow cherries
- How to grow plums
- How to grow greengages
- How to grow hazelnuts
- How to grow medlars
- How to grow quince trees
- How to grow apricots
- How to grow fig trees
- How to grow raspberries
- How to grow almonds and walnuts
How to look after old fruit trees
- A tree improves with age
- What can you do with an old fruit tree?
- The 6 factors in keeping older trees in production
- The metabolism of older fruit trees
- How to renovate old fruit trees
- Problems encountered with older fruit trees
- How to move an older free-growing tree
- How to get a large tree quickly
- How to move an older potted tree
- How to transplant a tree from a container
How to grow a wildflower meadow
Fruit trees and climate change
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