Lex & Ruth's Edible Backyard
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31/08/09 Frost: Low About My Edible BackyardWhy Lex & Ruth Love's Edible Plants We have a 4 acre block on a north facing hillside. Soil is full of shale & rocks but the soil is not bad. PH is around 6. Annual rainfall should be about 875mm but we've only had 320mm in the past year. Winter nights get cold but we're unlikely to get a frost because we're well up on the hillside. Summer days can get very hot - this year we had 43C - but, normally, we'd be classed as 'temperate". We're about 8km from the sea. Because of birds and fruit bats we have to group all of our edible fruits together in an area that we can completely enclose with netting. Citrus and avocados are outside the orchard area. We get strong winds - either north-east or south-west so trees like mangos and avocados get wind-burn. We have lived here for less than a year and, in that time have planted about 40 fruit trees, 300 natives and a few exotics and established a reasonable sized vegetable garden - about 100 square metres. We've also set up a flower garden and planted about 20 roses and a couple of hundred flowering plants of one sort or another. We've already harvested around 30 pumpkins and about 50kg of potatoes and 60 or 70 sweet corn. The vegetable garden currently has lettuce, peas, broad beans, string beans, radish, cabbage, cauliflower, strawberries, asparagus, carrots, beetroot, leeks, spring onions, brown onions, garlic, rhubarb and herbs. The thin top soil needed building up so we've used our trailer to bring in many loads of compost, chicken manure and cow manure.  * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
banana - unknownLex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 0hrs Height 3 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
persimmonLex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 0hrs Planted: 2008 Height 5 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Custard Apple - Late Gold Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 0hrs Height 4 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Grapefruit - Star Ruby Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 0hrs Height 3 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report 0 of 1 people found this review useful* You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Grapefruit - Marshs Seedless Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 0hrs Height 3 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Lemon - Eureka Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 0hrs Height 3 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Orange - Valencia Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 0hrs Height 4 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Orange - Washington Navel Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 0hrs Height 4 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Jaboticaba Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 0hrs Height 2 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Blueberry - Biloxi Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 0hrs Planted: 2008 Height 2 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Cherry - Stella Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 1hrs Planted: 2009 Height 8 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Nectarine - dwarf (Seedling)Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 1hrs Height 2 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Apple - Pink Lady Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 1hrs Planted: 2008 Height 4 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Apricot - MooreparkLex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 1hrs Height 4 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Lime - Tahitian Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 1hrs Height 3 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Brazilian Cherry Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 1hrs Height 2 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Cherimoya - White Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 1hrs Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Grumichama - Black Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 1hrs Height 2 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Guava Hawaiian - Pink Supreme Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 1hrs Height 2 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Cherry of Rio GrandeLex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 1hrs Height 1 metres Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Longan - Kohala Seedling Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 2hrs Height 1 metres Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Mango - Bowen (Grafted) Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 2hrs Height 1 metres Growing: In the Ground Water Given in: Spring Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 2hrs Height 2 Feet Growing: In the Ground Water Given in: Spring Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Avocado - Reed (A) (Grafted) Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 2hrs Planted: 2008 Height 1 metres Growing: In the Ground Qty: 1 Water Given in: Spring Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
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Yacon - Apple of the Earth Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 1hrs Comments: - Don't know - it just gradually wilted and disappeared. Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
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Soursop Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 2hrs Comments: - We think it has died - but we're waiting to see if there is any life still in it. Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
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Avocado - Hass (A) (Grafted)Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 2hrs Comments: - Very hot weather Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report 0 of 2 people found this review useful* You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
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Pawpaw - Southern Red Lex & Ruth's Edible FruitsUpdate: 893 days 2hrs Comments: - Wet feet Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report 1 of 7 people found this review useful* You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
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