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Winter Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop

Next date: Saturday, 16 July 2022 | 09:00 AM to 01:00 PM

Winter is the best time to prune deciduous fruit trees to enhance production and/or restructure the tree.

Join expert horticulturalist Justin Calverley for our winter fruit tree pruning workshop and learn how to best care for your fruit trees for health and to maximise your yield for next season. Pruning your fruit trees is also an important action for Queensland Fruit Fly management.

This workshop will combine both the theory of why and what we winter prune with demonstrations in the orchard.

Bring your gardening gloves, a hat, a rain coat and a pair of sharp clean secateurs and loppers.

Justin Calverley

Justin Calverley is horticultural expert with more than 30 years' experience and author of the book, The Urban Farmer. He is a go-to expert for the media and in high demand on the presentation and public speaking circuit. Ten years of Justin's popular 3RRR radio show 'Dirty Deeds' is available as a podcast or you can still hear him on 3RRR Breakfasters and ABC Evenings with David Astle.

What you will learn

Winter vs Summer Pruning
How to shape and improve fruiting with Winter pruning

What you will get

Handout

Parking Info

While there is some parking available at the front of Edendale we would encourage you to investigate some more sustainable transport options including:

Riding your bike
Public Transport
Walking
Car pooling

Some overflow parking may be available at Eltham North playground

Privacy Collection Notice

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