When to plant apricot in Waratah
- Plant seedlings: early Jul to mid JunWaratah area, temperate oceanic
Worked out from 30 years of climate records for Waratah. Microclimates vary: frost hollows and hills run later.
A fast-growing stone fruit that crops heavily in Adelaide's warm, dry summers, with fruit from late spring into early summer. Most common varieties are self-fertile, so one tree is enough. The one thing to get right: prune only in late summer or autumn in dry weather, as winter pruning invites gummosis and silver leaf.