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