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Fruit Information
Looking after established Fruit
Bushes and Trees:
You can kick-start your fruit trees and bushes into producing more delicious fruits this year if you feed and mulch them in early spring. Clear weeds from under the branches, using Weedol MAX,
then add a plant food to the soil surface to encourage flowering.
Miracle-Gro Organic Choice Fruit & Vegetables Plant Food would be the perfect choice. Soft fruits are easy to grow and can produce amazing crops, so why not have a go at strawberries, raspberries or currants if you haven’t
before. |
 Growing
Soft Fruits:
As Strawberry plants grow along the ground the fruit can rot
easily in very wet weather. To avoid this place straw or "Strawrberry
Mats" under the fruit. Alternatively grow in a "Strawberry
Pot" or containers to keep them off the ground - there are even
alpine varieties that will grow in hanging baskets!
Raspberries
come as "canes" and although they can be planted as
a shrub you can get better results with a supporting
frame as in the diagram on the right.
Blackcurrant, Redcurrant, Whitecurrant,
Blackberry, Blueberry, Gooseberry,
Tayberry and Loganberry do not require support. Berries need picking regularly. Freeze any excess harvest for the winter months if suited to freezing. |
 Planting
a container grown Fruit Bush:
Dig the soil over well and make
a hole twice the width of the container and one and a half times it's
depth.
Add a "Rose, Tree & Shrub Compost" or a peat/bonemeal mixture to
the hole and fork lightly into the soil in the base of the pit.
Water the container well (soak in a bucket if necessary) and press the soil down
firmly, and tap plant out.
Be careful to keep the soil
around the root system - if rootbound tease out some of the root system.
Lower the plant into the hole
and firm the soil around the plant.
Keep well watered.
Bare rooted plants: Spread out the roots and dig a hole wide enough
and deep enough to accommodate them. fork the soil round the hole to loosen it.
Place your plant in the hole and fill in with with soil and a "Rose, Tree & Shrub
Compost"
mix (or a soil and peat/bonemeal mix).
Keep well watered. |
Planting
a container grown Fruit Tree:
 Dig the soil over well and make
a hole twice the width of the container and one and a half times it's
depth.
Add a "Rose, Tree & Shrub Compost" or a peat/bonemeal mixture to
the hole and fork lightly into the soil in the base of the pit
Water the container well (soak in a bucket if necessary) and press the soil down
firmly, and tap plant out.
Be careful to keep the soil around the root system - if rootbound tease out some
of the root system.
Hammer a tree stake into the hole, just off-centre - if your site is very windy
a second stake may be necessary.
Lower the plant into the hole and firm the soil around the plant.
Sometimes when trees are supplied in a pot the graft point of the tree may be
a little higher than advised. When planting make sure that when the soil has
settled the graft lies just above the surface.
Keep well watered.
Bare rooted plants: Spread out the roots and dig a hole wide enough
and deep enough to accommodate them. fork the soil round the hole to loosen it.
Place your plant in the hole and fill in with with soil and a "Rose, Tree & Shrub
Compost"
mix (or a soil and peat/bonemeal mix).
Keep well watered. |
Apples
Trees:
Apples
are the most popular but take care in choosing - Apples Trees
are not self pollinating.
Two Apple trees, preferably of different varieties are needed
to cross pollinate one another.
The rule is that the two varieties chosen must flower at about
the same time or they can't pollinate one
another - so check
if the two varieties you are interested in are in the same
flowering period.
The two Trees don't have to be in the same garden - if one
of your neighbours has an Apple Tree it will
pollinate yours
if they flower at the same time.
All the Apple Trees that we sell are in the same flowering
group. |
Blackcurrant |
Raspberries |
Grapes |
Strawberries
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Rhubarb |
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BE FRUITFUL
Ideally, fruit bushes should be planted whilst the soil is warm and welcoming. For quick establishment improve soil in the planting hole with Miracle-Gro Soil Improver, it's ideal for planting raspberry canes and blackcurrant bushes. Why not grow some other 'super foods' and give blueberries and black berries a go. They contain antioxidants, packed with vitamin C and are a great source of fibre.
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For more information on fruit plants we stock, click boxes below
Fruit Bushes - Fruit Trees - Tomatoes
(Yes the Tomato is a fruit!)
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