Planting guide

When to plant nectarine

Smooth-skinned cousin of the peach; slightly more fussy about disease. In Melbourne it goes in All year.

Start as: Potted plant or Bare-root plant
Ready in: 3+ years to the first crop
Spacing: 400 cm
Depth: 0 cm
Sun: Full sun (6+ hours)
Water: Regular
Effort: Hands-on
Frost-tender: No

When it goes in

● means nectarine can go in that month, ○ means wait. Worked out from each town's real monthly temperatures, not a zone map. Pick your town for the full list for that month.

Australian towns and cities
Town	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Sydney	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Melbourne	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Brisbane	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Perth	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Adelaide	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Gold Coast	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Newcastle	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Sunshine Coast	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Canberra	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	●	●	●	●	●
Central Coast	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Geelong	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Wollongong	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Hobart	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Townsville	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Cairns	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Toowoomba	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Darwin	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Ballarat	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Mandurah	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Bendigo	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Launceston	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Mackay	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Rockhampton	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Coffs Harbour	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Blue Mountains	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Bunbury	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Bundaberg	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Alice Springs	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○
Mildura	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Port Macquarie	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○

Around the world
Town	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Auckland	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Wellington	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Christchurch	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
London	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Manchester	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Edinburgh	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Dublin	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
New York City	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○
Los Angeles	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Chicago	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○
Seattle	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Austin	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	●	●	●	●
Toronto	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Vancouver	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Cape Town	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Johannesburg	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Singapore	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Mumbai	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Paris	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Berlin	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○

How to plant nectarine

Plant bare-root in winter in full sun.
Prune to an open vase; thin fruit to a hand-width apart.
Spray for leaf curl before bud-swell.
Net against birds and fruit fly.

Nectarine varieties

Classic varieties are the reliable, widely grown ones. Adventurous ones are heirlooms, odd colours and rarities.

GoldmineClassicsweet · 17–23 wksLarge white nectarine
FlavortopClassicsweet · 17–23 wksYellow freestone with excellent flavour
FantasiaClassicheavy-cropper · 17–23 wksLarge yellow-fleshed nectarine
NectarinaAdventurousdwarf · pot-friendly · 17–23 wksDwarf nectarine for pots

Where to buy seedlings

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Good companions

Garlic, Chive, Nasturtium

Nectarine by month

Jan · Feb · Mar · Apr · May · Jun · Jul · Aug · Sep · Oct · Nov · Dec

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