Paula-f's Edible Backyard

Joined: 17/07/09 Updated: 13/01/12 Frost: None
Location: Worongary, QLD, AU

About My Edible Backyard

I'm absolutely passionate about growing edibles in my garden and get so much joy in seeing trees and plants bearing flowers.......and then fruit.

I live up on a ridge where it can get very windy at times, and which started out as a bare block with bush on 2 sides.  All the topsoil has been washed away over the years and I have been left with clay and rock.....which is why most of my trees/shrubs/plants are either in pots with the bottoms cut out or raised beds. 

I have put a lot of bigger trees around the perimiter and have created a micro climate inside and now have a very sheltered garden, which my bananas, tamirillos are very thankful for.

We get most of our rain during the summer months, in the form of storms, and winter/spring is usually very dry.

Fruit fly is also a terrible problem here, as is the possums, rats and birdlife that live in the bush.

Mango - Kensington Pride grafted

Comments: -

Great tree with great fruit.......full of flavour and no fibre at all.  I keep all my mango trees at about 3 metres tall (I have 4 all together, and cut back 1 each year).  This one is in amongst my vege garden, and has a compost bin sitting right underneath, so gets all the nutrients it needs from there.

Pollination: No

Strawberry - Redlands Joy

Comments: - I have quite a few different varieties of strawberries, and can't remember which are which.  I wasn't getting much fruit off them for a couple of years, and they always looked quite scrappy...........but I moved them into a different position with afternoon shade, and starting foliar feeding them, and are now getting some great results.

Pollination: No

Feijoa - Triumph

Comments: -

I finally have feijoas!!!!!!  After being very patient and waiting over 5 years for my 3 Bunnings un-named seedlings to flower and fruit.......I gave up and pulled them out, and purchased one each of the mammoth and triumph grafted varieties.  One (not sure which as I lost the labels) has fruited in it's second year and has about 5 fruit on.

Will have to bag them shortly to keep the pesky fruit fly out.

Pollination: No

Avocado - Seedling (Seedling) ^5/10

Comments: -

This is an unknown seedling variety, and it has been in for about 9 years and hasn't fruited yet, but I'm a very patient person and willing to wait to see what the fruit are like.

After loosing all it's fruit last year, it seems to have held onto a couple of fruit this year.  Time will tell if they stay on.

Planted: 2002

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost, horse manure, blood and bone and mulch.

Pest Control:

Anthracnose has been a problem with this one too, but I haven't sprayed yet as it hasn't flowered.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Dwarf Orange - Navelina (Grafted)

Comments: -

Had my one and only fruit off this about a month ago.  It's only been in for about a year, so I took 99% of the flowers off.....just wanted 1 for a taste.  Very nice orange, but probably not as "orangy" as I would have liked.  Hopefully will get better with age.

Planted: 2008

Height 0.75 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: comfrey mulch, dynamic lifter,seaweed fert.

Pest Control:

Cterpillars which I usually pull off and squash.  If there is only one, I usually leave it if it's not doing too much harm as I love butterflies.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Pineapple - F180 (Cutting) ^9/10

Comments: -

I take off all the tops of the pineapples I buy, and plant them in the garden.  They are quite an attractive plant (but very spiny), and look just like bromeliads.  They can take quite a while to form a pineapple, but as they are so easy to look after, I don't mind.  I hardly ever feed them, and they are out in the scorching sun, with little water.

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

These are the tops I have taken off bought pineapples.  They seem to take a while to get going, but once they do, they power away.

Comfrey

Comments: -

I have this plant growing everywhere.  It's great to just cut off all the leaves and throw them over the vege garden and fruit trees as a mulch, and I also use it as a compost tea.

Pollination: Self Pollination

alpine strawberry (Seedling) ^7/10

Planted: 2009

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 8

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

I find that these plants don't do very well here.......it's too dry!!!  They really need watering every day, and like a bit of shade.

Ceylon Hill Gooseberry - Cutting Grown

Fig - Brown Turkey

Angel Peach - Subtropical

Apple - Granny Smith (Grafted) ^6/10

Comments: -

Not sure how this apple will go in out subtropical climate.  We are actually situated up in the hills away from the coast so it gets a bit colder here, so I'm hoping this tree won't be a total loss.

The last 2 winters here have been quite warm so I'm very surprised that I have harvested 3 granny smith apples over that time.

I have shaped this tree by pulling down the branches so that they are horizontal, and this has also made prunning so much easier......all I have to do is thin out the stragglers and cut the vertical growths by about 2/3rds.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Cross Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

None so far, but will need to cover fruit from the birds.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Tamarillo - Orange (Cutting) ^8/10

Comments: -

Very easy to look after, although they love a good drink in hot weather and dislike being in a windy position, and they also like a bit of shade in the hot afternoon.

Cuttings are so easy to take, and the resulting tree ends up very productive.....within a year.  I I have found if I take the fruit off when it's just ripening, it dosen't seem to get stung by fruit fly.

I live in a sub tropical area, and am only able to grow the orange variety, but in winter the fruits do go a lot redder.

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: horse manure, mushroom compost, bllod and bone and sugarcane mulch.

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

The only thing that seems to affect the tree is aphids....but have also had 2 lovely trees about 2 metres tall, fall over......due to termites in the roots.

I  have found they are very short lived trees, and always have a couple of 

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Pitaya - Red Dragon Fruit (Cutting)

Comments: -

I have the red, yellow and white ones of these, but have so far only had fruit off the red one, which I loved.  Yellow one has it's first fruit on now (March 2011).

They seem to thrive in a full sun position and well drained soil.  I planted a couple of cuttings into clay thinking that once they put their aerial roots out, that it wouldn't matter what type of soil they were planted into but they both rotted and died.

And the flowers are absolutely amazing!!!!!  They open at night, so I always take a walk round the garden at that time and pollinate the flowers myself.

Planted: 2009

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

Fruit Harvest: 6 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none

Organic Status:Partially Organic

black Sapote (Seedling) ^8/10

Comments: -

This is a unknown seedling tree and has been in for about 8 years.  Every year up to now, it has been covered in flowers......but they have all dropped off.  This year I have 3 that have actually set, and look to hold on ok.

Very fast growing tree and loves all the water it can get.

Planted: 2004

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 8 Years from Seed

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:
Will cover the fruit once it gets near maturity.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

banana - Ducasse (Cutting) ^8/10

Comments: -

Very easy to look after so far.

Planted: 2009

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost, horse manure, lucern mulch.

Pest Control:

Started off with 2 suckers and now have a whole bunch.....I need to dig some out and plant elsewhere in the garden.  One of the first 2 fruited within a year and a half, and the second one is just fruiting now......2 years after I planted them bot

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Asparagus - Mary Washington

Comments: -

I love eating this straight off the plant.  I have 2 female plants as they both have the red berries, so I only get very thin stems.  The odd one is quite thick though, so are worth keeping in.

I cut them right back at the end of winter when all the fronds have died back and I give them a good feed of compost and manure just as they are pushing up new growths  and keep them well watered over summer.

Planted: 2006

First Fruited: 3 Years after I planted Cutting

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Eco Naturalure - Organic Fruit Fly Control

Comments: -

I usually use the bait to show me when  fruit fly are active again after their winter break, but as it only attracts the male, I cover all my fruit.

Grapefruit - Star Ruby

Pollination: Self Pollination

Cherry of Rio Grande ^6/10

Comments: -

I have finally had a taste of a cherry of the rio grande!!!  I wasn't that impressed at first, as it had quite a sour taste.....but I found that if you waited till they actually dropped off the tree they are pretty good.

A really easy tree to look after, very drought hardy and I just throw some bird netting over the top of it when it's fruiting as the birds are the only thing that seem to bother it. 

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: dynamic lifter, lucerne mulch

Pest Control:

none so far, but I think once it fruits the kurrawongs will be after them.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Peach - Florda prince (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: -

I am trying this one espaliered on some wire netting I have, so it will be easier to either cover the fruit with netting, or to bag the fruit.

Planted: 2008

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost, dynamic lifter.

Pest Control:

fruit will be covered from fruit fly.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Sandpaper fig

Comments: -

This tree came up from a seed a bird dropped.  I had no idea what it was at first, but as soon as it grew a bit bigger, and I felt the leaves, I knew what it was.  Seems to like where it is, so will probably just leave it as is.

Panama Berry (Seedling) ^9/10

Comments: -

I love this tree!!!!  It is so easy to look after, and the birds and insects seem to leave the fruit alone, as it seems to hang below the leaves, and is quite hard to see. It's a shame that the fruit are so small as they are so sweet and yummy.

Planted: 2008

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Question:

horse manure, compost and mulch.

Ugni

Comments: -

I have always wanted to try growing one of these, and never quite got around to buying a plant....so my sister bought me one as a surprise.  It's only small at the moment so don't know much about it at this stage.

Pollination: No

avocado Ettinger

Pollination: No

Persimmon - Fuyu (NA)

Comments: -

I love the fruit off this tree.  I cover them up with bags and let them go really soft on the tree.  This would have to be one of my favourite fruits.  I have found them to be very difficult to transplant though, even in their dormant stage as  I have killed 2 this way.

Pollination: No

Cedar Bay Cherry ^7/10

Comments: -

This looks like it will be a great little shrub, lovely dark green foliage and seems very drought tolerant so far.

The fruit are ok, but not great and it has a huge stone in the middle.

Planted: 2008

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none so far

Pest Control:

None needed so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Custard Apple - African Pride (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: -

This tree is very easy to look after.  I just prune it to the shape I want it, and fruit fly don't seem to bother it at all.  I get about 20 fruit off it each year which I find is more than enough as they all ripen at once.  This year I took a few green ones off every couple of days, but the ones left on the tree all ripened at the same time.  Next year will scoop them out and freeze the pulp for smoothies.

Fruiting Months June

Planted: 2004

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 15 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: dynamic lifter, horse manure and sugarcane mulch.

Pest Control:

The only problem I seem to have so far is scale, which I just wipe off, and if I leave the fruit on too long the lorikeets steal the odd one.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

pomegranate - dwarf ^5/10

Comments: -

This is a lovely plant, and so easy to look after.  I had about 10 fruit off it last year but they were very sour.  I have since been told the dwarf varieties are more for looks than for the fruit, so wished I had known that before I paid nearly $50 at Bunnings.  I had it in a pot, but will find a place in the garden amongst other ornamentals for it.

Planted: 2009

Height 0.25 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none so far.

Pest Control:

none so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Mandarin - Emperor

Pollination: Self Pollination

Lychee - Wai Chee (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

This tree hardley ever gets fed or watered and just thrives.

Planted: 2005

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

No pests

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Peachcot - Ora A (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: -

This fruit tree is well worth going to the trouble of bagging all the fruit, as I find it tastes very similar to a Golden Queen peach, which is my all time favourite peach, and I'm also trying to espalier one.

Planted: 2005

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 15 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost, mushroom compost and dynamic lifter.

Pest Control:

Fruit fly is a real nuisance, so I bag all the fruit as soon as it forms.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Mandarin - Daisy (Grafted) ^4/10

Comments: -

This one has been in about 4 months and was doing it a bit tough at first....as it was covered in scale and sooty mould.  I gave it a spray with eco oil and now it is atarting to power ahead.

Planted: 2009

Height 0.75 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none so far.

Pest Control:

eco oil for scale.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Orange - Cara Cara (Grafted)

Comments: -

This one has only been in the ground for a couple of months.  Should do well as it is in full sun.

Planted: 2009

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none so far.

Pest Control:

none so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Orange - Lanes Late

Pollination: No

Wax Jambu - Pink (Seedling) ^5/10

Comments: -

This one has been in for about a year and a half, and is growing very slowly.  This is probably due to the fact that it is right at the bottom of the garden, and I sometimes forget to water it.  Still stays nice and green though.

Planted: 2007

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: mulch and dynamic lifter.

Grape - Isabella Black (Cutting) ^6/10

Comments: -

I picked this grape because it is supposed to have more resistance to powdery mildew and able to handle humid conditions better than other varieties.  I am espaliering it onto 4 strands of wire, which I hope will also help against pests (will be able to cover it easily) and diseases (airflow). 

It has only just started to come out of winter dormancy, before any of my other grapes......but this is probably due to it being in full sun.

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none so far.

Pest Control:

None so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Rollinia - Brazilian Custard Apple (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: -

I've only had this tree for just over a year, and I have it in amongst some other shrubs and trees.  I'm thinking it may be too shady here for it, and when everything starts to get bigger, will be very hard to harvest the fruit.  May have to find another spot for it.

Planted: 2007

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none so far.

Pest Control:

None so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Custard Apple - Pinks Mammoth ^6/10

Comments: -

I've had this tree for a couple of years, but it has been moved a couple of times, so has stayed quite small, as it has not been able to become established.  May even have to be moved again as I think it will get too big for this position.  It has lost all it's leaves so now would be the perfect time.

Planted: 2007

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pruned By: 30% in Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none so far.

Pest Control:

None so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Grumichama - Black (Cutting) ^5/10

Comments: -

Can't wait to taste the fruits of this one too.

Planted: 2007

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost, dynamic lifter and lucerne and comfrey mulch.

Pest Control:

None so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Apple - Pink Lady (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: -

I'm giving this one a go as well, as I read it also has lower chilling hours than most other apples.

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Yearly and Spring

Pest Control:

Will be covered from the birds and fruit bats.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Loquat - Bessell Brown (Grafted)

Comments: - I had a 7 year old seedling loquat that hardley ever flowered, and then turned up it's toes and died, so I'm trying this grafted variety in a new position.

Planted: 2009

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: horse manure, compost.

Pest Control: fruitfly, birds,bats.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Raspberry - Heritage (Cutting) ^8/10

Comments: -

I had read quite a bit about this type of raspberry before I bought it, and was unsure about actually purchasing one as most of the comments were that it was very bland, but I'm glad I did, as they are very tasty.

Planted: 2008

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

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

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Pest Control:

Birds love this fruit.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Mulberry - Black English (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: -

This tree is about 6 years old, but I prune it back twice a year, once really hard in winter and again after it has finished fruiting in spring, as this stimulates another crop.

Planted: 2003

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: horse manure, compost, blood and bone.

Pest Control:

You have to be pretty quick to beat the fruit bats and the birds to the fruit.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Wampi (Seedling)

Comments: -

I think this is a seedling as I lost the tag a few years ago.  I find the fruits a bit musky tasting.

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: horse manure,mushroom compost, blood and bone and sugarcane mulch.

Pest Control:

No pests so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Midyim Berry

Guava Yellow Cherry

Guava - Strawberry

Mandarin - Honey Murcott (Grafted) ^6/10

Comments: -

The skin is a bit harder to peel on these, and quite a few pips, but the taste is beautiful......very sweet.

Fruiting Months July and August

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 3 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost, liquid seaweed, dynamic lifter, horse manure.

When I Fertilise: Yearly

White Sapote - Pike (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: -

This tree is fruiting already after only being in the ground for a year.

Planted: 2008

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

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

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

None as yet, but will have to cover the fruit from birds, fruit bats, and fruit fly.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Blueberry - Misty (Cutting) ^7/10

Comments: -

Looking forward to trying some of these this year as I lost most all of them to the birds last year.

Fruiting Months August and September

Planted: 2007

Height 0.75 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: horse manure, dynamic lifter, blood and bone and pine needles as a mulch.

Pest Control:

Have made up some cages out of wire netting this year to keep them safe from the birds.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

plum 3 way grafted (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: -

This plum is a 3 way grafted.....it contains grafts from mariposa, narrabeen and I think the last one is satsuma.  I don't think I have enough chill hours here for it to fruit though, so will be grafting some low chill varieties onto this tree in the future, to replace the others.

Planted: 2005

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: horse manure, compost, dynamic lifter.

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Pest Control:

Nothing so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Feijoa - Mammoth

Pollination: No

Plum - Gulf Ruby

Pollination: No

Acmena smithii - Creek Lilly Pilly

Pollination: No

Passionfruit - Panama Red

paw paw

paw paw

Tahitian Lime

Lemonade Tree

Mandarin - Imperial

Dwarf Orange - Washington Navel

grape ruby seedless

Grape - Flame Seedless

Blueberry - Sharpblue (Cutting) ^7/10

Fruiting Months July and August

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost, dynamic lifter, horse manure and pine needle mulch.

Pest Control:

Made up cages from wire netting to keep fruit away from the birds.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Finger lime - Rainforest pearl (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

This is a very prickly tree, and was flowering when I bought it a year ago, but they all fell off, but it is flowering again now.

Fruiting Months July, August, September

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: dynamic lifter and lucerne mulch.

Pest Control:

none so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Longan - Kohala Seedling

pear-sunshine

Mango - R2E2 (Grafted) (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: -

This is a new addition, but I didn't notice until I got home, that it had 2 tags on it, one with R2E2 Grafted, and the other saying it was a Bowen.

Planted: 2009

Height 0.75 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none so far.

Pest Control:

Will cover fruit from fruit fly, and fruit bats.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Mango - Bowen (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: -

This tree is doing beautifully.

Planted: 2004

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 15 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: horse manure, dynamic lifter and sugarcane mulch.

Pest Control:

I have to bag the fruits, then cover the tree to keep fruit away from the fruit bats and fruit fly.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Jaboticaba - Yellow (Seedling) ^5/10

Comments: -

This one was moved about a year ago, and has just started to grow some nice green leaves.

Planted: 2008

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Fertiliser or Organics Used: horse manure, compost, sugarcane mulch.

Pest Control:

None as yet.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Jaboticaba (Seedling) ^5/10

Comments: -

This is the black one and is a seedling, and is very, very slow growing.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Fertiliser or Organics Used: mulch. Seaweed fert.

Pest Control:

None as yet, as it hasn't

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Dwarf Mulberry - Black ^5/10

Comments: -

I planted this one so I could cover it, so I have a better chance of beating the fruit bats and birds to the fruit.

Planted: 2009

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none as yet.

Pest Control:

Birds, fruit bats.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Sapodilla - Seedling (Seedling)

Comments: -

Not too sure how this one will do, and also with it being a seedling, not sure how the fruit will taste, or how long it will take to fruit.

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost

Pest Control:

nothing yet.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Berry - Youngberry (Cutting) ^5/10

Comments: -

Had some of these planted up against a fence, but we had to move the fence so these ones have only been in the ground for a few months.

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: nothing yet.

Pest Control:

birds love them, and you have to contain the plants as they have runners popping up metres away from the parent plant.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

pomegranate - Jativa ^5/10

Comments: -

There are 2 pomegranates in this picture, the bigger one (unknown variety) in front has flowered about 3 times, but never set fruit, and the little one (Jativa) has only been in about a year.

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost, horse manure, potash.

Pest Control:

None so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

white Sapote (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

This is another I have lost the tag for, but am pretty sure it's grafted as I can just make out a graft on the trunk.

Planted: 2007

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost, mulches so far.

Pest Control:

None so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Macadamia ^9/10

Comments: -

This tree is about 8 years old and I lost the tag years ago, so not sure what type it is.

Planted: 2002

Height 7 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 4 Years from purchase in pot

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Hardly any, some dynamic lifter about once a year thrown on the ground under the tree.

Pest Control:

Had problems with the cockatoos pulling the unripe fruits off for the first time last year, and also problems with the macadamia nut borer.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Sea Grape (Seedling) ^5/10

Comments: -

Have no idea what to expect from this tree.....size,shape or what the taste of the fruit will be like.

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

None so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

rome beauty (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: -

Another tropical apple. Haven't seen many of these around in the nurseries.

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2009

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: animal manures, blood and bone and lucern mulch.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Golden Dorsett grafted (Grafted) ^6/10

Comments: -

This one took a bit longer than my "Anna" to produce fruit, and dosen't seem to produce as many fruit.....lots of flowers but most fall off.

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2006

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Cross Pollinator Variety: Anna

Fertiliser or Organics Used: animal manures, blood and bone and lucern and comfrey mulches.

Pest Control:

Will cover the fruit, to keep away from the fruit bats and birds.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Einsheimer ^5/10

Comments: -

Another Tropical apple. This one is just a stick too, as it was planted the same time as the Rome Beauty.

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2009

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: animal manures, blood and bone and lucern and comfrey mulches.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

anna apple (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

This tree seems to fruit twice a year.....it has it's main fruiting season, and then again in June it always flowers and sets a couple of fruit.

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2005

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: animal manures,blood and bone, mulch.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Dwarf Apple - Tropic Sweet (Grafted) ^6/10

Comments: -

Have just moved this tree about 2 months ago, so that is why some of the leaves are brown as it dried out.

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2009

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Fertiliser or Organics Used: animal manures, blood and bone

Pest Control:

Will also need to be covered from the birds.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Persimmon - Nightingale (A) (Grafted)

Comments: -

This one died after I transplanted it.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none so far.

avocado - pacific giant (Seedling) ^5/10

Comments: -

This is a seedling I got from the Mount Tamborine Markets.

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none so far.

Pest Control:

None so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

avocado - Linda (Grafted)

Comments: -

Tasted one of these at Tropical Fruit World, and it was so nice that when I came across one for sale I bought it.  Unfortunately it didn't make it.

Planted: 2009

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none so far, as just planted.

Pest Control:

None so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Abiu (Seedling) ^5/10

Comments: -

Died due to lack of watering.

Planted: 2009

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none so far.

Pest Control:

none so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Avocado - Reed (A) (Grafted)

Comments: -

Unfortunately this avocado was moved a few too many times.

Planted: 2009

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none so far.

Pest Control:

none so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Macadamia

Pepino