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Home » Guides and advice

Guides and advice

Whether you’re looking to grow your community groups, improve fruit tree health or just produce more fruit, we have lots of advice and tips for you here. Many thanks to the amazing experts who have helped to develop this urban fruit growing knowledge bank.

Planning and designing an orchard

Pruning Veteran Trees

Choosing Apple Varieties to Plant

Making Leaf Mould

planting an orchard

Planting your orchard

10 Beneficial Predators to welcome in your orchard

Helping Young Trees Establish in Summer

HELPING BRITAIN BLOSSOM WEST DULWICH

Involving the community in your orchard

The Importance of Mulching

10 Amazing Species that live in Orchards!

ladybird

Benefits of orchards and fruit growing

Why are Orchards Priority Habitats?

Community Cider Making

Community Mapping

When Should You Pick Apples and Pears?

Community Apple Pressing

Primary School Activities

Primary School Lesson Plans

grafting a fruit tree

How to Graft Fruit Trees

pruning an apple tree

Pruning apple trees

Urban buds

Contamination issues

containers

Growing fruit in containers

Bethlem Royal Mental Hospital restored orchard

Restoration of old orchards

bee

Flowering and pollination

apple scab

Pests and diseases

drinking celebration

How to celebrate our orchard heritage

Damson Orchard Muffins

Recipes to use up a glut of delicious fruit

apple blossom

The orchard year: spring

The orchard year: summer

Autumn apples

The orchard year: autumn

trees in winter

The orchard year: winter

fuit peelings

Links and further resources

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