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These pages include 'how-to' stories, planting guides and useful hints

from Tim Marshall's personal experience, and his friends. Find out how to grow healthy, successful organic fruit, and return to see regular updates and seasonal advice.

Featured Articles

	Almonds Their early blossom is a welcome sight, when the rest of the orchard trees are bare.

	Passionfruit and Kiwi Fruit Passionfruit are a popular garden plant as their scrambling habit is put to good use to hide unsightly fences and walls.

	Chestnuts Rumours have mature trees dropping over a thousand dollars worth of nuts per year.

	Apples and Pears in the Home Growing apple or pears to cosmetic perfection by the organic method is difficult.

	Plums in the Home Orchard European plums have smaller fruit than their Asian counterparts, have drier flesh and have a more aromatic taste.

	Lemons and Other Citrus Citrus are nearly all self-fertile and will tend to set more fruit than is needed.

	Hazel Nuts Of all nuts, the hazel is the easiest to grow and the most neglected in Australia.

	Berry Fruits These fruits bear on shoots that grew last year and need trellising for support.

	Apricots, Peaches and Nectarines The flavour of tree ripened peaches, apricots and nectarines bears no resemblance to the rubbish sold in shops.

	Strawberries Strawberries are very easy to grow, provided their requirement for copious quantities of food and good drainage are met.