Kath's Edible Backyard

Joined: 20/11/08 Updated: 02/09/10 Frost: None
Location: Cawongla, NSW, AU

About My Edible Backyard

August - Spring is sprung -  the first fire flies appear on the 19th.

Jobs to do - I have run out of mulch. Need to fix all the damage done by a herd of cows that have vanandalized my orchard, bush track and lawn.  I know why lotsof people like to eat cows.

Do something about the lantana hedge and the nighmare vines that are encroaching on the edges!

Blossom - Nectarine is in full bloom, it is a bee magnet and is buzzing with both honey bees and tiny native sugarbag bees.  Part of my mutant plum is in the flower - the gulf gold bit, I hope ruby catches up to pollinate, mind you the gold seems to set so heavily.  The white plum blossoms only seem to attract a few insects, compared to the nectarine.

Harvesting - More bananas are being enjoyed by the king parrots.  The citrus are a joy, I have decided I like them dotted all through the orchard to brighten it in up in the winter, they are never going to be blessed with being watered so there is no point in putting them all together in a block.  

First Crop -  nagami kumquats - yummy, very sour and sweet, a perfect combonation of ooow eeeee. They are too gorgeous to pick, I have had several offers for the fruit but can't strip the tree just yet for the sake of a little jam.  Maybe next week.

Peats - Urrghrr - somthing has nibbled on my cork trees, wallaby or snail-slug.

Other Gorgeous things - I have my first grass tree spikes, they attract lots of bees as well as nectar eating birds, the rainbow lorikeets have not minded me sneaking up on them to admire their to admire their stunning colourful plumage.

Comments

I love your edibles page- lots of excellent information, and you are a good photographer. Diana (Brisbane).

Kath your page is looking great keep it up.

Kath's WISH LIST

Indian Almond Tree

Why Kath wants it: - Gorgeous tree, edible almond like kernal.

Japanese Raisin

Why Kath wants it: - Looks interesting. It is deciduous and tough.

Pawpaw - Southern Red

Why Kath wants it: - I want to try another pawpaw but, but need a proteced north facing spot for one.

Achiote - Bixa

Why Kath wants it: - It is beautiful and interesting.

Star Anise

Why Kath wants it: - I love spices

Aniseed Myrtle

Lychee - No Mai Chi

Comments: - This is coming along nicly now, it is flushing new growth and looks like it is finally growing, very slow to get going.  But now after a couple of years it is wallaby sized.

Planted: 127

Height 70 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pomegranate - Rosavaya (Cutting)

Comments: -

A lovely plant that is gorwing well with little - to no attention.

Beautiful red leaf flush of new growth in the spring, lights up the bottom of the orchard.

Planted: 2009

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Comments

Plum - Gulfgold (Grafted)

Comments: -

Multi grafted plum, rootstock Myrobolan, grafted with mariposa, regrafted with gulf gold and gulf ruby. Problamatic but interesting. Lesson in importance of thinning the fruit. Lost one of the grafts, not to worry grafted some of the broken bits onto new rootstock shoots - way to low, going to create new problem next year when the fruit hang on the ground.

The Chill Factor - end Aug/Sept 2010 - all the plums are flowering together, by early Sept. the Gulf Gold has set lots of fruit - but is still spot flowering.  The mariposa part of the tree is also flowering, what felt like a warm winter because the minimums were high was cooler because the maximums were lower - so the chill factor was higher!

Fruiting Months October

Growing: In the Ground

Strawberry - Maroochy Flame

Comments: - My strawberries love the rock wall, I started with six plants and two years later I had six hundred. They share the wall with chives, spinach, gerbras, echincea and paper daisies. I had the best crop ever until the bower birds discovered them.

Fruiting Months September

Garlic Chives

Echinacea (Seedling) ^10/10

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Cut leaf mintbush

Wampi - Guy Sam

Planted: 127

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Canistel (Grafted)

Planted: 127

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Velvet Apple (Seedling)

Comments: - A winter planting, suffered from shock, dropped all its leaves for quite some time, has not yet florished, yet, it has it first flowers.

Planted: 127

Custard Apple - African Pride (Grafted)

Planted: 127

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Orange - Cara Cara

Finger Lime - Ricks Red (Grafted)

Pitomba (Seedling)

Comments: - Very slow, has not done anything yet.

Planted: 127

Height 80 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Water Given in: Summer

Sapodilla - Krasuey (Grafted)

Comments: - To tell when the fruit is ripe, scratch the surface of the skin, it if it green underneath it is not ready to pick.

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Water Given in: Summer

Lychee - Salathiel

Qty: 1

Papayuelo (Seedling)

Comments: - Male Tree.

Planted: 127

Height 80 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Guiana Chestnut

Papayuelo (Seedling)

Comments: - male or female, I underestimated these little fruits, they are tangy, with hints of banana, pineapple and papaya. Those who love papaya will possibly be disappointed due to the size.

Fruiting Months November

Planted: 127

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Water Given in: Summer

Cross Pollinator Variety: 1x M, 2x F

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost and cow manure

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Drumstick or Horseradish Tree (Seedling)

Comments: - All parts edible, leaf, roots, flowers, even the seeds can be used to settle water. I guess other creatures like it too.

Planted: 127

Height 70 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Guiana Chestnut

Jaboticaba - Yellow (Seedling)

Planted: 127

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Dwarf Orange (Grafted)

Comments: - Hamlin I think

Planted: 127

Qty: 1

Dwarf Mandarin (Grafted)

Planted: 127

Height 1.2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Peach - Dwarf (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - Gorgeous blossom show in the spring. Fruits ripen later in the season in the subtropics,susceptible to fruit fly.

Planted: 127

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Comments

Black Sapote - Superb (Grafted)

Planted: 127

Height 70 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Allspice

Comments: - My favourite tree, beautiful form and deliciously spicey leaves. I put a couple in the bottom of the cake tin when baking banana cakes.

Height 2 metres

Qty: 1

Cross Pollinator Variety: Trees are Male or Female

Avocado - Hass (A) (Grafted)

Comments: - Grafted avo from Carla, could be a hass or a sheppard Grafted onto Pug seedling from Kyogle. Attempt no. 9.

Planted: 127

Height 70 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Cinnamon Tree (Cutting) ^10/10

Comments: - Gorgeous

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Water Given in: Summer

Question: I have not worked out how to harvest my cinnamon yet, anyone out there with any tips?

Comments

Coppice ie allow to grow a few years then cut down to harvest and allow to reshoot similar to Tea (Camellia) and Linden (Tilia)

Finger Lime - Yellow

Comments: - Green/Yellow fingerlime, long, large, lime yellow fruits.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Chinese Waterchestnut (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: - I have them growing in three ninety litre bowls which they share with the tadpoles, frogs, water lilies, dragonflies,snails and leeches. Dwarf tree frogs love them. Harvest when the tops die down. Keep the pot topped up and provide an object for the young frogs to climb out on or they can drown.

Planted: 127

Growing: In a Pot

macadamia - A4 Seedling

Lemon Verbena

Finger Lime - Scarab Red (Grafted)

Finger Lime - Bush Selection

Comments: - JB

Finger Lime - Tasty Green (Grafted)

Finger Lime - Little Back Creek

Comments: - The local lime, collected after being bulldozed next door. A few cuttings are planting in the bush.

Growing: In the Ground

Finger Lime - Red (Grafted)

Finger Lime - Emma

Comments: - From Andy's - Toomumbar

Finger Lime - Emma (Grafted)

Comments: - From Andy's - Toonumbar

Finger Lime - Wauchope (Grafted)

Finger Lime - Large Green/Yellow

French Sorrel

Comfrey

Comments: - Hangs over the compost bays.

Syzygium australe - Brush Cherry

Syzgium paniculata - Magenta Cherry

Syzygium mooreii - Coolamon

Syzygium luehmanii - Riberry

Syzygium francisii - Giant water gum

Syzygium alliiligneum - Onionwood Satinash (S/T)

Wild Strawberry

Comments

Can you eat them?

Peanut Tree

Australian Round Lime

Randia fitzalanii - Native Gardenia

Randia chartacea - Narrow-leaved Gardenia (Seedling)

Podocarpus elatus - Ilawarra Plum Pine

Pipturus argenteus - Native Mulberry

Macadamia - Not A4 (Cutting)

Qty: 2

Macadamia - H2 (Seedling)

Comments: - Bought for 25 cents from the Car Boot Market

Comments

Macadamia - Guros (Cutting)

Lomandra longifolia - Mat Rush

Glycosmis trifoliata - Orange Berry

Ficus watkinsiana - Strangler fig

Ficus superba - Deciduous fig

Ficus fraseri - Sandpaper Fig

Comments: - Large deciduous fig

Ficus coronata - Sandpaper fig

Eupomatia laurina - Bolwarra

Comments: - Bolwarra is scattered throughout the bush

Eupomatia bennettii - Small Bolwarra

Comments: - Scattered throughout the bush

Diploglottis campbellii - Small leaf tamarind

Diploglottis australis - Native Tamarind

Dioscorea transversa - Native Yam

Comments: - Lovely little delicate twiner.

Dianella longifolia - Pale Flax Lily

Comments: - Tall dianella with pale blue fruits.

Dianella caerulea - Blue flax-lily

Dianella atraxis - Blue Flax Lily

Smooth Davidsons Plum

Davidsonia puriens - Davidsons Plum

Comments: - The FNQ species

Davidsonia jerseyana - Davidson Plum NSW (Seedling)

Comments: - At the start of the track, first flowers Nov 08

Clematis glycinoides - Forest clematis

Comments: - Also called the headache vine. Lots of these in the bush, an attractive small vine.

Cape York Turmeric

Alpinia caerulea - Atherton Native Ginger (Red Form)

Austromyrtus dulcis - Midjim Berry

Athertonia diversifolia - Atherton Oak

Alpinia caerulea - Native Ginger

Green Sapote

Planted: 127

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Acronychia oblongifolia - Common Acronychia

Bush Lemon Tree (Seedling)

Comments: - Something peels the lemons and leaves the fruit hanging in the tree.

Question: Why are there not Bush Mandarins, or Bush Oranges?

Peanut Tree

Comments

Cape Gooseberry

Comments: - Grows wild, mostly in cleared areas. A better weed than most, soft wooded, no thorns, edible fruit. I have to harvest them as soon as the crop starts before fruit fly get into them.

Comments

Green Sapote - Schnyder (Grafted)

Comments: - Flowering Nov/Dec 08

Planted: 127

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Longan - Kohala marcotted

Comments: -

This tree is finally getting a go on, it has done nothing for the past 2 years, and has a flush of new growth and looks fabulous at last. Slwo to establish and much less vigorous than a seedlign.

Malabar Chestnut (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: - I

Fruiting Months January

Planted: 2005

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 4 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Water Given in: Summer

Papayuelo (Seedling)

Comments: - Female. I hand pollinate the flower, This tree has angular orange/yellow fruits.

Planted: 127

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Comments

Jaboticaba

Comments: - The Name Jaboticaba comes from the Tupi language. Jabuti - meaning tortoise and caba - meaning place. The place of the tortoise.

Planted: 127

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Carica sp. (Seedling)

Comments: - Rootstock for babaco from Tropical Fruit World. Bulbous base. The fruits are small but really tasty, sweet, soft, apricot like.

Height 30 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Banana - Lady Finger ^10/10

Comments: - This has given me as much if not more fruit than anything. Picked green to beat the birds the whole bunch ripens at once. Great to share.

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Kwai Muk (Seedling)

Planted: 127

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Comments

Sweetsop (Purple Sugar Apple) (Seedling)

Comments: -

Drops its leaves late, in winter. Flowers at a young age. Flowering Dec 08

I have my first crop of fruit, it has lots on it this year 2010.  I picked about 7 fruit and beat the birds.  I did leave a few too long on the tree and they split.  Tasty fruits - lots of seeds.

Fruiting Months May and June

Planted: 2007

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Comments

Mulberry - Dwarf Red Shahtoot (Grafted)

Comments: - Slow growing, replacement tree, first one did nothing, 2nd one growing well

Planted: 127

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Water Given in: Summer and Spring

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost, cow manure and lucerne hay mulch.

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Mulberry - Dwarf Black (Cutting)

Comments: - After the tree has finished cropping in the spring, cut 1/3 off it for a second crop in the autumn. There are no fig birds around in during the autumn crop to eat all the fruit.

Fruiting Months March, April, September, October

Planted: 127

Qty: 1

Comments

Grumichama - Black (Seedling)

Planted: 127

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Lemon - Eureka (Grafted)

Comments: - Grafted onto Sour orange. Massive fruit.

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Nectarine - Sunraycer (Grafted)

Comments: - Home to the Wild May fruit fly trap. Attracts lots of honey bees and native sugarbag bees.

Fruiting Months October and November

Planted: 2002

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pruned By: 1% in

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Pest Control:

Fruit fly control - wild may

Challenges -

Fruit fly. 

Gorgeous hungry king parrots.

Lemon - Dwarf Meyer (Grafted)

Comments: -

Loaded in flowers, attracting lots of bees.

Planted: 127

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Comments

Cedar Bay Cherry (Seedling)

Comments: - Very slow growing. Flowers and fruits from an early age.

Height 30 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Water Given in: Summer

Miracle Fruit (Seedling)

Comments: - Very slow growing, almost as high as the grass.

Planted: 127

Height 20 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Jakfruit - Tweed Crisp (Grafted)

Comments: -

I am a recent convert of the smelly fruit and I do like these trees and the fruits hanging in them are very impressive.

August 2010 - the cows ate my Jakfruit tree, might be time to eat the cows............just as well these trees are tough as old boots I am quietly confident it will recover and have my fingers crossed that the owner of the cows has fixed his fence.

Planted: 2009

Height 1 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Carambola - Kary Seedling (Seedling)

Comments: - A gorgeous tree, always looks beautiful, glossy foliage down to the ground, lovely delicate pink flowers, small but pretty and fruit - wow, my first crop has been enormous - just a shame about the fruit fly, but easily nibble around.

Planted: 127

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Water Given in: Summer

Pest Control:

need to do something about the fruit fly

Star Apple - Pink (Grafted)

Comments: - Drops everything in late winter when the temps get to 2 degrees, have not successfully cropped it yet.Smothered in flowers as usual , it will flower for much of the wartmer months but doesn;t seem to set anything until late int he autumn, nothing has set yet.

Height 1.2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Water Given in: Summer

Kumquat - Nagami (Grafted)

Comments: -

Growing beautifully, I have my first crop of kumquats this year and I can't wait for the sensational sweet and lively sour little fruits - yummy

Planted: 127

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted)

Comments: -

This tree is struggling, it keeps getting cut back hard to remove gall wasps and it has not had a chace to grow very much.  Gets scale and suffers from neglect. I will have to give it more attention if I want it to thrive, I wish I had bought a tree on trifoliata as the dwarf is too slow.

Qty: 1

Pest Control:

get spray occasionally with pest oil, I need to give this tree more attention

Comments

Lemon Myrtle (Cutting)

Comments: - I have never seen so many beetles as I have in my flowering lemon myrtle

Pineapple

Comments: -

Finally, some flowers.  Picked my first pineapple, July 2009.  I have replaced the blueberries with pineapples although the section of orchard is quite shadey.

Planted: 2009

Height 30 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Comments

Blueberry - Sharpblue (Cutting)

Comments: -

This is the only blueberry to survive the harsh dry season at the end of 2009, it is struggling.

Planted: 127

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Orange - Arnold Blood (Grafted)

Comments: -

The birds love my Arnold blood oranges - they eat them all.

Fruiting Months July and August

Planted: 127

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Finger Lime - Ricks Red (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - The red browed finches nest in it dense sikey foliage every year. It is the native food source of the citrus butterflies, including the Dainty Swallowtail. Small frogs like the protection of the thorns as well.  Fabulously product tree, I have been picking fruits for months and selling them at the local farmers market.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, December

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 0.6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Water Given in: Summer

Fertiliser or Organics Used: cow manure, compost

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Pest Control: suffers from scale

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Panama Berry (Cutting) ^10/10

Comments: - My favourite browsing tree. Fast growing, beautiful wide canopy makes it a great shade treefor warm frost free spots.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, May, December

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 6 Years from purchase in pot

Water Given in: Summer

Cherry of Rio Grande (Seedling)

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Cherry of Rio Grande

Comments: - Beautiful bark, like the native python tree. Tasty cherry like fruit, sparce, cross pollination may help.

Planted: 127

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

When I Fertilise: Spring

Persimmon - Ichikikijiro (NA) (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - Essential to feed, water and mulch as it breaks bud in the spring. This year 2008, my tres has grown two foot in a spurt. It is a beautiful tree. April 2010, I just dropped a tree onto my persimmon - whoops, serves me right for not cutting the wattle down when it was tiny, by the time I decide to fix the problem, it is 6-7 m high and smothered in vine.  The persimmon stood up pretty well considering, it has been pruned on one side as a result so is a little lopsided for the moment, at least it will get more sunshine.  Now I just have to keep the vine covered lantana hedge at bay.

Planted: 127

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Mandarin - Okitsu wase (Satsuma) (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: -

Great crop of early seedless large easily peeled fruits

Fruiting Months April and May

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pest Control:

eco oil for scale.

Finger Lime - Small Red (Grafted)

Comments: - Just for the fun of it.

Turmeric ^2/10

Fruiting Months April and October

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

Fruit Harvest: 7 kilograms per Year

Water Given in: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring

Organic Status:Certified

Question: my question goes here

Jaboticaba - Yellow (Seedling)

Comments: -

So far it is struggling.

Planted: 2010

Fig - Bolzicco\'s (Cutting)

Comments: -

A cutting from my neighbours fig tree

Planted: 2010

Growing: In the Ground

Miracle Fruit (Seedling)

Planted: 127

Yellow Mangosteen

Comments: - Just germinating, has 2 leaves after nine months. Notch the wallaby has taken up sitting on the seed trays during the heat of the day. I had better pot it up.

Height 5 Centimetres

Organic Status:Organic

Sapodilla - Sawo Manila (Grafted)

Comments: - I finally planted my Sawo Manilla in June 2010, I hope it is not too much of a temperature shock going from the poly house to the top of my hill.  It is right up the top of the orchard, not too bad a spot, planted into a big mound as the soil is fairly heavy, will need to keep the lantana hedge at bay.

Planted: 2010

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Organic Status:Organic

Cork Oak (Seedling)

Comments: -

The Cork Oak - Quercus suber is not exactly edible but it a very useful plant for keeping wine in the bottle and it is used for flooring, platform shoes and other essential products.  In fact buying wine with a cork supports an ancient traditional industry of cork growing in Europe and north Africa.  I collected my  acorns in mid June 2010 from the impressive tree in Tenterfield, northern NSW which was planted in 1861 after being transported to Australia in a jam tin.  I planted the acorns straight away point down in forestry tubes, in July I noticed roots poking out the bottom of the tubes and by August the seedling oaks are all popping up.  The cork oak is an evergreen spreading tree with wiggly squiggly branches and gorgeous thick corky bark.  Now I just have to wait 150 years for my acorns to grow into impressive specimens, I can only hope someone in the future will get to enjoy these trees.

Planted: 2010

Height 0.05 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Pollination: Self Pollination

Coconut - Wonga Beach (Seedling)

Comments: -

Planted June 2010 into a large mound, fingers crossed it survives, winter, our heavy soil and our sub tropical climate

What my coconut looked like before the cows ate it.......and after

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Avocado - Secondo (A) (Grafted)

Comments: -

Attempt no 3 at a secondo, this time planted into a BIG mound.  July planting, hopefully it will not mind mid winter above the frost line and will have settle before the westerlies come in spring.

Planted: 2010

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Kakadu Plum (Seedling)

Comments: -

Gorgeous tree, bush food. Great autumn leaf colour.

Planted by the dam, needs weeding around.  The horrible foreign vines are swamping it.

My poor kakadu plum lived as a very tortured tree and struggled on, it was neglected, strangled, whipper snipped, stomped on and somehow it struggled on, until finally the cows snapped it off at ground level. 

I will have to try again.

Papayuelo

Comments: -

The first tree to fall over in the January 08 rains. A female, this turned out to be a good thing as I had two other female trees. I replaced it with a male tree and now have lots of fruit.

Ironically more than 18 months on this tree has not actually died, it is thriving in a non dying kind of a way in my well drained, slowly acumulating compost heap. 

And in 2010 my undead tree is fruiting - it is still in the compost heap and has to go, it is almost time for it to die again.

Star Apple (Seedling)

Comments: -

This star apple was rescued several years ago in a pot with another tree, it was separate & has struggled, finally died after a year or so giving me a new oportunity and a spot for something else - what to put there is the question?????

Blueberry - Misty

Comments: -

died in the dry season of 2009 when our dam dried up. 

Planted: 127

Qty: 1

Water Given in: Summer

Blueberry, Mystery bush 2 (Cutting)

Comments: -

died in the dry season of 2009 when our dam dried up. 

Planted: 127

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Comments

blueberry, mystery bush 1. (Cutting)

Comments: - From Chris - died in the dry season of 2009 when our dam dried up. 

Growing: In the Ground

Blueberry - Sunshine Blue (Cutting)

Comments: - From Chris - I lost this with all my other blueberries in the dry of 2009. 

Planted: 127

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Comments

Star Apple - Weeping (Grafted)

Comments: - This was growing like a beauty for me and had a sudden collapse. Could have been something to do with scale and eco-oil. Very sad. Replaced with a grumichama.

paw paw (Seedling)

Comments: - I have killed a few pawpaws, the last one a southern red which had been going beautifully until it rained for a month. By week 2 the pawpaw was decidedy yellow, a sign there was a root problem. A week later it was dead.

Comments

Plum - Gulfgold

Comments: - One arm of my mutli grafted plum. I had not thinned the fruit and it only took a king parrot or two to break the whole graft off. Not to worry,I grafted a couple of bits back onto the rootstock shoots. I think this will create new problems.

Avocado (Grafted)

Comments: - I have killed a few avocadoes, 8 so far in fact. Hass, Secondo, Fuerte, even a seedling that was bulldozed in the name of progress. It has been too hot, too sunny, too windy and too wet for them. Not to be defeated I am trying again.

Blueberry - Sunshine Blue (Cutting)

Comments: - Mowed and then mowed and then mowed again. Whoops. Replaced with one taller than the grass.

Lemon - Dwarf Meyer (Grafted)

Comments: - Dry, lack of water. Sick

Cardamon Ginger

Comments: - Bulldozed in the name of progress.

Lemon Grass

Comments: - Bulldozed in the name of progess.

Rocoto Tree Chilli

Comments: - Bulldozed in the name of progress.

Musk Okra - Abelmoschus moschatus (Seedling)

Comments: - I have a bad habit of planting anything that is free. It took 4 years for this to flower so I could find out that I didn;t really want it in my orchard. I ripped it out and replaced it with a Kwai Muk.

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