My Edibles: Stone Fruit NSW

Pear - Corella (Grafted) ^6/10

Qty: 3

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pear - Williams (Grafted) ^8/10

Planted: 2011

Pollination: Self Pollination

Plum - Satsuma ^7/10

Comments: -

Love home grown fruit!

Fruiting Months January

Height 7 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 1 Pounds Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

Fruit fly traps

Plum - Mariposa ^9/10

Comments: -

taste

Fruiting Months January

Height 7 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control:

Fruit fly traps

Peach - Florda prince (Grafted) ^5/10

Height 6 Feet

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Apricot - Moorepark (Seedling)

Comments: -

Delicious

Fruiting Months January

Planted: 2006

Height 8 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 2 Years from Seed

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control:

Fruit fly traps

Organic Status:Organic

Question:

Fruited the 1st year (about 10) then leaves look wilted & nothing seems to help!

Nectarine - Seedling from Compost (Seedling) ^6/10

Comments: -

Settled in really happily initially, after a year in a pot. Then, suddenly (and I suspect dog pee, much like a bunch of herbs in the vicinity), it nearly keeled over. Am waiting and seeing if it recovers, but it's not looking very happy at all

I plan to graft some varieties onto it later, but just put it in to establish a root system and get trunk a bit thinker to graft onto

Update: Late 2011, dead

Planted: 2011

Height 0.4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Mango - seedling - who knows (Seedling) ^7/10

Comments: -

Just popped out of compost heap when living in Blue Mountains, so I dragged it back here.

No fruit yet, but others in the area go well. I will graft it with a named variety very shortly. It's growing quite well in full sun, on the high/dry side of my garden. I've recently added a swale for it and the other trees in same vicinity.

Planted: 2010

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Peach - Can\'t remember (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: -

UPDATE: Is simply called "Tropical Peach"

Growing really well. Had a few bits of fruit on it straight from the nursery, and actually tasted quite good. Looking forward to grafting all sorts of bizarreness (almond etc) onto it at some point :)

It gets a bit neglected up there, but still going quite well

UPDATE: This is COVERED with fruit, just bursting :) Can't wait to see how they taste

Fruiting Months July, August, September

Planted: 2010

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Plum - Santa Rosa

Plum - Gulf Ruby

Planted: 2010

Nectarine - Sunraycer

Peach - Tropic Snow

Growing: In the Ground

Nectarine - Arctic Rose (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: -

Has already produced lovely good sized very sweet fruit. 

August 2009:  Some flowers.  Pruned the tree.

September 2009:  More flowers and young green leaves starting to appear.  Applied sulphate of potash and watered in.  Introduced fly trap.

October 2009:  Lots of growth observed.

November 2009:  Lots more leaves.

December 2009 to March 2010:  No fruit but lots more growth recorded.

February 2012: Very healthy but fruit were rendered totally inedible by fruit fly.  Will take necessary steps next season to enjoy the lovely sweet nectarines.

Height 3.5 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Cow manure, sulphate of potash and fruit tree fertilisers

Pest Control:

Leaf curl spray during winter and before bud swell.  Pest oil mid spring. 

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.

Feb 2012 - Planting day has finally come after several years in a pot my tree is now about a foot high, time to go in the ground.

Height 30 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Davidson Plum - NSW

Comments: -

Such a beautiful girl! I love her velvety pink new growth - if only you could make a dress out of it! You have to be careful not to damage a leaf though because when she's little one leaf is a significant proportion of the tree.

2009: She transplanted from my old house which was great - I was particularly worried about her cause she's a native. She did get flowers that year but I had to pull them off because I didn't want her to waste energy on them when I needed her to focus on surviving the move.

2010: First fruit this year. My dad LOVES how sour it is. I think next year the fruit that he doesn't eat might be destined to make some yummy relish.

Summer 2011: Lots of suckery new growth coming round the base. To leave or not to leave? Do I want a bush or a tree?

Spring 2011: I left the suckers because I was worried that I might have planted her into potty mix that was a bit gross. She seems fine though. Hated the strong spring winds that we had this year. I have planted some cassava to try and grow a windbreak for her.

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2007

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: chicken poo, worm castings, Seasol, Charlie Carp

Pest Control:

Elephant weevils might be the ugliest looking thing I have ever seen. They are big enough to just pick off but EWWWW!

Dwarf Peach - Standard ^10/10

Comments: -

1 meter tall Growing well Newcastle Area

Clay soil mulched raised with good topsoil north facing daily watering

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Mango - Bowen ^10/10

Comments: -

1 meter tall Growing well Newcastle Area

Clay soil mulched raised with good topsoil north facing daily watering

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Mango - Florigon (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: - Tough, easy to grow tree - havent tried its fruits yet.

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Horse manure, worm castings and dynamic lifter

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control: None

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Peach

Dwarf Nectarine - Sunset Backyard Beauty (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: -

A beautiful tree in flower, and I would love to taste some fruit unaffected by fruit fly - maybe next year! 

Developed leaf curl immediately after domancy - left it too late with the lime sulfer spray.

Fruiting Months January and December

Planted: 2011

Height 40 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Fruit Harvest: 0.1 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Sunset Peach

Pest Control: Should have bagged the fruit - was attacked terribly by fruit fly and slugs here in Sydney.

Plum - Sugar

Comments: -

Summer 2011: Gift from my friend Brett. Looking forward to comparing it to the other unknown plum cuttings we struck earlier in the year.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Spearmint

Comments: -

Pointier leaves than normal mint and mine tends to grow in great bit vertical spikes rather than lower twisty brnaches like the normal mint. Slightly different floavour. Same as normal mint in that it will take over the world if you don't keep it in a pot.

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Pest Control: Caterpillars LOVE it but it is prollific enough not to be too much of a problem but you have to be careful not to end up with a caterpillar breeding ground that infests the rest of the garden.

Plum (unknown) (Cutting)

Comments: -

Spring 2011: Cuttings given to me by a friend of a friend (thakns heaps Brett!!) who inherited the parent tree with his farm... none of us know what sort they are but they are yummers! The first of the cuttings just appear to be coming to life.

Summer 2011: Out of 5 cuttings only 2 grew leaves (back in spring). One was dead as a dodo but the other 2 were still green - just sleepy?? So I scraped off some bark, dunked them in rooting hormone and repotted them. One is already starting to how signs of success!

Planted: 2011

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 4

Pollination: No

Apricot - Moorepark

Peach - Elberta

Pear - Corella (Grafted) ^6/10

Comments: -

Mine is on dwarf rootstock. Bought because my kids love pears, and the size of the fruit is perfect for small children. I also have a Faccia Rosa for pollination. Growing beautifully this year, in a spot where it's competing for light with bigger trees. No blossom or fruit yet.

Height 1.8 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: sheep manure/lucerne hay

When I Fertilise: Spring

Plum - Santa Rosa (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: -

Bought this on dwarf rootstock. Growing more strongly in it's second year, flowered this year but no fruit yet. Bought because it's self pollinating.

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: sheep manure, lucerne hay

When I Fertilise: Spring

Plum - Gulfgold (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

Very attractive little tree, bearing largish yellow plums. These ripen later than Gulf Ruby and taste very good provided you wait till fully ripe. In second year producing 30 plums even though its partner Gulfruby did not flower this year, so it looks like it's self-pollinating well.

Fruiting Months December

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 20 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 30% in Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Gulf Ruby

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

Early bearing so no fruit fly problems. No other pests encountered, so no spray needed.

Organic Status:Organic