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Fruit tree advice
- 1. Fire blight
- 2. Apple trees for sweet cider and hard cider
- 3. Apples for cooking
- 4. Best time to buy and plant apple trees
- 5. Book reviews
- 6. Climate suitability of apple varieties
- 7. Find the position of the sun in your garden
- 8. Find your hardiness zone
- 9. Growing apple trees in pots and containers
- 10. Growing apple trees in the North American climate
- 11. Growing English Apples in North America
- 12. Heeling-in fruit trees
- 13. How to pollinate Bramley apple trees
- 14. Interstem rootstocks
- 15. Mature height of fruit trees
- 16. Minimum chill requirement for apple trees
- 17. Mychorrizal fungi for planting fruit trees
- 18. Picking times for apples and other fruit trees
- 19. Pruning a newly-planted fruit tree
- 20. Rootstocks - an introduction
- 21. Rootstocks for Apple Trees
- 22. Rootstocks for Cherry Trees
- 23. Rootstocks for Pear trees
- 24. Rootstocks for Plum trees
- 25. Storing and keeping apples
- 26. Training fruit trees as fans and espaliers
- 27. Triploid apple varieties
- 28. Why spring is the best time to plant bare-root fruit trees
Our fruit tree recommendations
- Best apple varieties for hard cider
These apple varieties have the tannins and complex juice flavors needed for the best hard-cider. - Top 5 apple trees for USDA zone 3
A countdown of the best apples and crab-apples which are able to resist the harsh winters of USDA zone 3. - Top disease-resistant apples
We rank the top most disease-resistant apples - ideal for your no-spray or organic orchard or backyard.