Choose the site

Look for:

• Sunny, sheltered site
• Room for your trees with around 4 meters between them

Avoid

• Frost pockets
• Poorly drained or shallow soils
• Flooding

Check the soil

Find out what you have before you choose varieties

Choose varieties

Consider type, taste, pollination, size, disease resistance and ideal growing conditions

Plant trees

• Dig a hole no deeper than the roots, but up to three times the diameter of the root system
• Make sure the graft is above ground
• Firm the soil
• Water in well
• Mulch

Look after it

• New trees need 10 – 20l of water per week
• Keep the area underneath them weed free
• Cut off any growth below the graft line
• Remove all the blossom in the first year