Guides

How to Plant a Fruit Tree

Where should you plant, how deep does the hole need to be? How do you defend your tree from pests and weeds?

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How to Care for Your Fruit Tree

It takes about two years for the roots of your newly planted tree to become established and grow beyond the planting hole. This guide will show you the basics of watering, pruning, mulch and fertilizer to keep your tree happy and healthy while it's becoming established.

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How to Prune a Fruit Tree

A more in depth guide to pruning, because different trees have different needs.

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How to Build a Water-wise Planter and Watering System

Many neighborhoods don't have enough green space to plant trees in the ground. But you can still have beautiful fruit bearing trees on your street if you use our easy to make water-wise planters!

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Care of a Container Grown Fruit Tree

How and when to water, how much sun? This guide will help you keep your container grown trees happy and healthy.

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Create an Urban Fruit Trail

Urban Fruit Trails are an invitation for the public to explore the city and its landscape in a unique way.

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How to Map Your Fruit Tree

How to use our app to put your trees on the map!

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How To Share Backyard Fruit

A fruit tree can bear hundreds of pounds of fruit per year. This is much more than a family can eat in a season. If you have abundant trees that are not accessible to the public, consider sharing your fruit!

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Parkway Planting

Rules for planting in parkways in Los Angeles, CA.

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Permits for Street Trees

How to get a free permit for an Endless Orchard street fruit tree.

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Plant the Perimeter

Our city is filled with useless ornamental landscaping and more cement than grass. What if we replaced all these little shrubs with fruit trees?

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