I provide an initial consultancy visit to your home or property from $50 (plus travel costs) depending on the size of your property and where you live. Or you are welcome to come and look at my Rangiora home orchard for a consultancy and view my extensive variety of fruit.

I can advise you what varieties to grow here in Canterbury. For example, what apples keep best in storage, what peaches don’t get leaf curl, how to minimize codling moth damage to apples, etc.

Taking water off your roof in the winter and storing it in large tanks (it costs around $3,100 for a 25,000 litre tank- plus installation cost) for watering your trees over the summer is a good idea. If you don’t water enough you get small fruit.

I can help you with the following:

Advise you where to get trees
Organize soil testing for you
Organize a leaf analysis
Plant trees
Set up irrigation
Spray on foliar sprays
Pruning and training
Install rainwater collection systems
And much more

Because of our dry summers, keeping the soil moist is vital. Mulching around the trees, and keeping the water up is very important. As a plumber, I can set up rainwater collection systems.