29 May 2026 | Citrus, Fruit trees, Gardening tips
Nutritional deficiencies in citrus What is the Ideal pH for citrus? Citrus likes a close to neutral pH i.e. between 6 (lightly acid) and 7. High alkaline soil prevents the absorption of iron, magnesium and zinc which are necessary for the production of chlorophyll,...
22 February 2026 | February, Fruit trees, Gardening tips
Pruning apricot and cherry trees Top tips: Prune in February or March or not at all Prune only on a warm, dry day Use a thinning technique for pruning Keep watering after fruiting Apricot pruning fundamentals Prune the structural branches to a vase shape. Remove...
29 September 2024 | Citrus, Fruit trees, QLD Fruit Fly
Defeat citrus gall wasp (and Queensland Fruit Fly) with kaolin clay! Citrus gall wasp, an Aussie wasp originally from Queensland, can affect all citrus but seems most prevalent in lemon, lime, cumquat and grapefruit trees. The galls result from the injection of eggs...
28 October 2023 | Fruit trees, Gardening tips
Transplanting advanced trees About 12 months ago, Bulleen Art and Garden (BAAG) donated 3 advanced fruit trees to the Sustainable Macleod Community Garden. They were growing along the BAAG driveway that led to the landscaping yard and had to be removed to make way for...
7 July 2023 | Fruit trees, Gardening tips
Start now to prevent brown rot of stone fruit in Spring! Start now to prevent brown rot of stone fruit in Spring! Top tips: Remove all fruit including mummified fruit Clean out crotches Remove all vegetative material beneath trees Spray up to 4 times before buds open...
4 June 2023 | Fruit trees
Dealing with suckers! For the health of fruit trees, it is important to remove suckers at pruning time. Suckers are the shoots that grow from the rootstock beneath the graft on fruit trees. Most fruit trees are grafted, sometimes having several grafts on the one tree....
