Growing your own fruit is one of the most rewarding things you can do in a garden or on a balcony – and it’s more achievable than most people think, from tropical rarities to hardy backyard trees. These guides cover planting, pollination, pruning, propagation and harvest for a wide range of fruit, grouped by type so you can find what suits your climate. Whether you’re starting a mango from seed, grafting a custard apple, or pruning black currants for a bigger crop, start here.
Vegetables
Growing vegetables too? They have their own hub — see Vegetable Gardening for fruiting, root, leafy and salad crops, plus starting from seed and common problems.
Tropical & exotic fruit
Warm-climate and rare fruit – many can be grown in containers or under cover in cooler areas.
- How to grow a lychee tree (planting, air layering, pruning)
- How to grow a jackfruit tree (from seed, grafting)
- Growing lanzones (langsat)
- Growing Annona trees (hand pollination, grafting) & custard apple
- Wax apple, marula, cocoa & açaí palm
- Falsa (phalsa), pulasan, miracle fruit & peanut butter fruit
- Roundup: hairy fruits
Citrus
- How to grow a lemon tree, indoor lemon tree & lemon trees in pots
- Pomelo, limequat, bergamot orange & Ponderosa lemon
- How to grow calamansi from seed
- Explore: types of orange, clementine vs mandarin & blood orange season
Temperate & stone fruit
- Cherry plum, almond & planting apple trees
- Olive trees, black mulberry, medlar & quince
- Jujube & strawberry tree (Arbutus)
Berries & cane fruit
- Raspberries, Atherton raspberry & thornless tayberry
- Marionberries, olallieberries & jostaberry
- Black currants, goji berry & blue raspberry
Equipment for growing fruit
Set your trees and berries up to thrive:
- Fertilizer for citrus & fruit trees
- Pruning shears for training and harvest
- Propagation equipment for seeds, grafts and cuttings
See also: fruit tree grafting · grafting tools & supplies
Related guides
Guides in this section
Citrus
Berries & cane fruit
- Atherton raspberry
- Black currants
- Blue raspberry
- Goji berry
- Jostaberry
- Marionberries
- Olallieberries
- Buckingham tayberry
Tropical & other fruit
- Almond
- Annona
- Strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)
- Arbutus ‘Marina’ tree
- Carob
- Cherry plum
- Cocoa
- Custard apple
- Falsa
- Jackfruit
- Jujube
- Lanzones
- Lychee
- Marula
- Medlar
- Miracle fruit
- Black mulberry
- Olive
- Peanut butter fruit
- Quince
- Wax apple
- Weeping mulberry
- Pulasan
Fruit-growing techniques
- Growing fruit trees from seed
- Tropical fruit in cool climates
- Pruning fruit trees
- Fruit tree grafting
Struggling to get a fruiting plant to actually fruit? See our plant problems guide, or our fertilizer guide for feeding advice.
More fruit & spice tree guides
- Mamoncillo (Spanish Lime)
- Feijoa
- Rose Apple
- Bael Fruit
- Camu Camu
- Bignay
- Ambarella
- Clementine Tree
- Allspice Tree
- Curry Tree
