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🌳 Growing 30+ organic fruit trees & bushes
🏡 Small, urban garden (95sqm)
🇦🇺 Perth, Aust
✍️ Edible garden designer
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23/10/2026

IT’S GOING TO BE ANOTHER LOVELY SPRING WEEKEND IN THE GARDEN 🪴

Growing fruit and berries in your backyard doesn’t have to mean spending hours on jobs. A little bit of work at the right time of year is all that it takes!

These are some of the key things to get done this weekend if it is still spring where you live. Mulching will prepare your garden for the summer heat and feeding some of your trees and berries now will keep them fruiting well into summer and autumn.

Bonus tip for all you loquat growers out there; if your tree has finished fruiting for the year and you’ve collected your harvest, now is the time to give it a good prune.

Even if you have just 30 minutes this weekend, save this checklist and pick one or two of these jobs to do. Then get out there and enjoy a little productive time in your garden!

Happy growing!

22/10/2026

IF YOU LIKE WEARING GLOVES WHEN YOU GARDEN, THIS ISN’T A VIDEO FOR YOU…

But if you like bad voiceovers and rhubarb, then this IS a video for you.

Rhubarb is one of my favourite “filler” fruits to grow in a small space garden. You might not get a big enough yield of strawberries or apples to be able to make a big pot of jam, but add in a few big stalks of rhubarb and all of a sudden, you do!

Rhubarb is sensitive to hot weather, so if you live in a warm climate, get it in the dirt now. It will slow down its growth over the hot summer months before sprouting those big, thick stalks again in autumn.

Rhubarb can grow up to 2m wide, so my planting plan of 5 in one veggie bed may seem crazy to you. But in a small space garden we have to get more out of less and I know that with good soil and consistent harvesting, I can make that number work.

And yes, I should be wearing gloves. And a mask. Probably.

Got a question about rhubarb growing, or how to set up your own small space veggie bed? Ask away in the comments below!

20/10/2026

IT’S BEEN ALMOST 3 YEARS SINCE I SET UP MY POTTED TREES IN FRUIT TREE ALLEY…

And learning to adapt from growing in ground fruit trees, to fruit trees and berries in pots and w**e barrels has been intense.

But I think it’s made me a better tree owner. Apart from the times I’ve been too busy to care for them properly 😂

When you are working with potted trees and berries, you are responsible for all of their needs - food, water, root health…all of it. So you have to get to know your plants really well.

This “getting to know them” has been where I’ve learnt the most. And hopefully can share the most information with you!

Have you got a question about growing fruit trees or berries in a pot? Ask away in the comments below!

19/10/2026

NOTHING ABOUT PRUNING IS EASY TO EXPLAIN IN JUST A FEW SECONDS!

But I’ll do my best ☺️

Last week I shared the first of several basic pruning cuts - just some starting points on what to look for and where to start when it comes to pruning your fruit tree.

These are just a few more…with thinning cuts and cutting out the 3 D’s being the most important (in my humble opinion!)

Pruning can be daunting and confusing; even as I was putting these two videos together, I realised how much detail there is that needs to be explained to master this skill.

That’s why I’ll be hosting an in person (if you’re in Perth) and online pruning workshop. We’ll get into the detail of all of these particular cuts, as well as some other key points. By attending, you’ll walk away with a process to approach pruning in your own garden.

If you would like to be notified when tickets go on sale, comment PRUNE below and I will get your details!

Happy pruning!

14/10/2026

NOT EVERYONE IS GOING TO AGREE WITH MY METHODS…

But as long as we are finally having a conversation about pruning together, that’s a win!

Fruit tree pruning can be very daunting when you first start out. Don’t prune this now, don’t prune it there, don’t do that, oops - now you’ve gone and done it. Etcetera.

So let’s just start with some basic cuts. Whilst a 30 second reel and a quick caption on Instagram doesn’t give you all the detail you’ll need, at least by listing these cuts, we can break down the more daunting, overall task of pruning.

We’ll explore each of these in more detail together in future posts.

Looking for something more hands on when it comes to learning about pruning?

I will be hosting a fruit tree planning workshop in the new year (online and then in person if you live in Perth). You can register to receive an email when the tickets go on sale by commenting PRUNE below.

13/10/2026

THIS IS THE YEAR THAT MY APRICOT TREE HAS SHINED!

This apricot was one of the first trees that I planted in my small space garden. I desperately needed some shade over the neighbouring veggie beds and also…I love apricots.

I’ve had some good harvests from her in the past, but this year she’s really hit her strides and it is so exciting!

Interestingly, apricots and plums are some of the least demanding fruit trees for fertiliser, but they do need some TLC throughout the year to make sure they will be productive in spring.

How are your stonefruit looking this spring? Tell me in the comments below!

10/10/2026

ALL YOUR HARD WORK THROUGHOUT THE YEAR SHOULD BE PAYING OFF NOW…

You’ve pruned and fed your fruit trees and berries all year long and in a mid-spring garden you should start to see all that work paying off!

Trees and berries should be flowering or fruiting and bees should be out in force, pollinating everything in sight.

So now you need to just bring it home! And one of the key jobs you need to complete in mid-spring to guarantee a harvest, is netting.

This year I’m experimenting a little between using big nets that enclose the whole tree and individual bags over the fruit, protecting each one. I’ll be sharing the results as the season carries on!

Are you working in the garden this weekend? Comment below on what trees you’re working on and where and I’ll give you an extra job to do to give that tree a boost!

08/10/2026

ALL THE TROPICAL FRUITS NEED FEEDING!

If it’s mid-spring where you are, that probably means you’re stonefruits, pomme fruits and berries have either started flowering, or have already been pollinated and are bearing fruit.

And while that’s very exciting, if you still have flowers or the fruit are very small, it’s better to hold off on fertilising those trees for now. A nice worm or compost tea tonic application will make them happy, but fertilising could cause the flowers and fruit to drop.

Mid-spring is the time to make your tropical fruit trees shine! A solid feed heading into summer will mean more production at the end of the season and a healthier tree that can withstand those hot days.

So clear some space in your calendar this weekend or next and get out there feeding!

07/10/2026

THIS WAS SUCH A HARD LIST TO MAKE!

I love all of my fruit trees - the loquat, the guava, all the stonefruit and pomme fruit. But if I had to nut it down to 5 of my favourite backyard fruit trees, then these are the ones I would choose.

Some are because I’m being cheap (as if I would ever pay $1.50 for a lemon in the supermarket!). Some are because it genuinely scares me what the store bought version could have sprayed all over it (berries anyone?) 🫐

But mostly it’s because of the incredible taste of homegrown. It’s always sweeter, has more depth and makes dishes and baked treats taste 150% better?

Have you ever wanted to learn how to grow your own fruit in your small space backyard? Follow along for a tonne of tips and info, direct from my experimental backyard!

06/10/2026

IT’S GETTING TOO WARM WHERE I AM TO START PLANTING STONEFRUIT…

But that doesn’t mean there aren’t some fantastic beginner fruit trees that can still be planted in mid-spring!

I’m also adding mulberries and olives to this list - both prolific producers and both very hardy and can survive without a huge amount of maintenance.

As well as these trees, there are a tonne of fruit seeds you can plant out in mid-spring. Get your watermelon, rockmelon and honeydew seeds in the dirt now to give them plenty of time to mature and sweeten at the end of summer.

Got a question about whether you can plant a fruit tree or berry now that the weather is heating up? Ask away in the comments below and tell me where in the world you are so I can give you a better answer.

Happy growing!

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