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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 trees for beginners
  If you are new to growing apples then these varieties are disease-resistant and easy to grow,
• Best apple trees for sweet cider
  If you want to press your own sweet apple cider here is our list of apple varieties with the best juice flavors.
• Best apple varieties for hard cider
  These apple varieties have the tannins and complex juice flavors needed for the best hard-cider.
• Rare and unusual apple trees
  If you already have a productive backyard orchard with a good selection of mainstream apple varieties, how about growing something different?
• The best apple trees for USDA zone 3 and zone 4
  A countdown of the best apples and crab-apples which are able to resist the harsh winters of USDA zone 3 and zone 4.
• Top 10 fruit trees for wildlife planting
  These apple and pear trees are ideal for encouraging deer, birds and other wildlife to come on to your land, whether for hunting or conservation purposes.
• Top 10 low-chill apple trees
  Low-chill apple varieties are ideal for growers in warmer climate zones where winter temperatures rarely get down to freezing.
• Top disease-resistant apple trees
  We rank the top most disease-resistant apple trees - ideal for your no-spray or organic orchard or backyard.