Horticultural practices
Grove management starts with planning of the planting site, and by comprehending every operation until harvesting time in order to achieve the best marketable fruit yield and quality. It includes horticultural practices such as grove establishment, irrigation, nutrition, canopy management, and grove protection. Importantly, fruit quality starts in the grove. In this chapter we are focusing on grove planning with special focus on tree spacing, canopy management, and tree size control, and crop load management from a horticultural point of view.