This allows for easy maintenance, a large variety of flavors, and less wasted fruit. The first thing to do is choose what flavors you would like to have coming from your personal fruit bushes. Decide how many of each you want, and what varieties by looking at our Fruit Tree Variety List . Pick which spots in the garden you wish to grow your fruit bushes. Remember, you can get up to 5 different flavors in a 6 by 6 or 3 by 8 ft. spot.
Any open area can hold a few fruit bushes.
Fruit bushes like sun, but many spots that seem too shady actually allow enough sun. As soon as the fruit bush gets higher that a fence, they are in sun all day. As the trees grow the first year, prune to create the shape you want. Pruning a fruit bush just like pruning a normal hedge or bush. The key to easy maintenance is pruning during the growing season.