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Dwarf Mulberry - Black ^10/10

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These 2 mulberries get massive amounts of mulberries on for there size . Those grey birds with the black head think all there christmases have come at once .

Planted: 2009

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Cape Gooseberry

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Volunteer from under compost bin. This plant is attacked by three striped beetle every year, but bounces back and fruits well for long periods of the year despite this. The fruit is really nice, slightly tart. African yam (heart shaped leaves) is also a volunteer from the compost. This yam tastes nice grated and washed in lemon juice water, but oozes slime when cut, like a lamprey.

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Blueberry - Biloxi

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Also a Sharpblue and Gulf coast. Quite a few small blueberries over a long time (Nov-Dec, still flowering and new fruit in December)

Fruiting Months October and November

Planted: 2010

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Panama Berry

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Planted in November. Second picture is April. Now 3 x 3 m. Absolutely covered in berries and flowers. The perfume and taste is lovely, and the flowers attract a lot of bees. No fruit fly or any other problems other than having to prune often to keep it in check. Fruits all year, but tails off in winter.

Planted: 2009

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 2 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Mulberry - White Seedling

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Fast-growing and massive. Fruit has a more subtle flavour than black mulberry. Second fruiting season in January/February after tip pruning.

Fruiting Months January, February, October, November

Planted: 2008

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 8 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost

When I Fertilise: Spring

Strawberry - Maroochy Flame ^9/10

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Maroochy flame and Redlands Joy. You can't have too many, and they are pest free. I think I have to plant new ones after this season of third generation suckers, though. They seem to be getting a second wind, I thought strawberries were finished in November, but they are covered in flowers and unripe fruit again in late December.

Planted: 2009

Height 0.25 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 1 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Planted in compost

Pest Control:

Only spraying with seaweed

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

Blueberry - Biloxi (Cutting)

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this is a highbush variety unspecified i don't know if it is Biloxi

Planted: 2012

Growing: In a Pot

Blueberry - Gulfcoast ^10/10

Comments: - love my Blueberries, and now (after reading this wonderfully informative forum) i know to treat them like azaleas, i should have a lot more success

Planted: 2012

Growing: In a Pot

Raspberry - Heritage

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giving this a go, two other raspberries died on me and apparently Heritage is not the best tasting fruit but i'll keep

Planted: 2012

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Dwarf Mulberry - Black ^8/10

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Lovely little tree this, unfortunately the fruit fly are attacking it.

Fruiting Months September

Planted: 2006

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 30% in After Fruiting

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Comments

pruned a couple of weeks ago and it's fruiting again! i will try some pest guard mesh this time.

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot (Grafted) ^7/10

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quite slow growing compared to the white as it is a dwarf. seems to be getting thicker instead of taller. got a couple of fruit  very tasty

Fruiting Months October and November

Planted: 2011

Height 400 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Autumn and Spring

When I Fertilise: Spring

Question:

 tree seems very dense  do dwarf trees need extra pruning?

Berry - Elderberry

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Very vigorous. Flowered in first year.

Planted: 2010

Height 0.75 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Raspberry - Heritage (Seedling) ^10/10

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Delicious and problem free except for grasshoppers. A williamette now too.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 0.5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Raspberry - Atherton ^10/10

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Growing very vigorously and taking over their patch of the garden (enclosed by concrete strips, next to lawn). Fruit is sweet and subtle.

Fruiting Months August, September, October

Planted: 2009

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

None

Midyim Berry

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Attractive sprawling shrub, with nice pink new growth and flowers. Flowers well, but no fruit yet.

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control:

None

orange berry

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Growing strongly, nice glossy shrub. Fruit quite nice, but mostly seeds. Was moved to a less crowded spot after being shaded by native raspberries, but it didn't like the sun, so moved back now.

Planted: 2009

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Mulberry - White Shahtoot (Grafted) ^10/10

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never tried white mulberrys. established last autumn, lost all leaves over winter, flushed with new growth mid spring.

i love these white mulberrys.  great tasting, got about 15  and at only 6 months. they have  concentrated on growing now in early summer and both have gone nuts after a light prune.

Fruiting Months September, October, November, December

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer and Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Question:

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.

Austromyrtus dulcis - Midjim Berry ^10/10

Comments: - Great ground cover shrub with very tasty little berries. This is a cross between dulcis and tunuifolia. Loveley soft apple-ish berries with a hint of cinnamon.

Planted: 2010

Height 2 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 4

Fruit Harvest: 1 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pruned By: 20% in After Fruiting

When I Fertilise: Never

Panama Berry (Seedling) ^10/10

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This is among my favourite trees. Fastest growing fruit tree I've ever seen, most prolific fruiting fruit tree I've ever seen, easiest care fruit tree. The fruit are lovely little fruits - tasting a bit like caramel corn or the popcorn jelly belly lollies. There would have to be around 1000 fruits on the tree at all times during the warm months...

Keep tree pruned by cutting off the top half every few months. you dont need much tree to get plenty of fruit!

Fruiting Months January, February, October, November, December

Planted: 2010

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 10 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pruned By: 50% in Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Never

Guava - Strawberry (Seedling) ^10/10

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No maintenance, only had for 6 mnths & covered in fruit

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: at planting

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

none, haven't seen anything attacking it (yet)

Organic Status:Certified

Star Gooseberry ^7/10

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Update 09-Dec-2011: This tree really seems to love the current weather. Plenty of new growth. New pic attached.

Wasnt aware that these trees were deciduous. It lost all its leaves over winter and was completely bare. Its growing new shoots now.

We also call the fruit 'amla'.

Height 0.75 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Guava - Strawberry (Seedling) ^7/10

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Have been told these are delicious, and also that i will have to keep the fruit fly away too. It is growing really well in the pot so far, had a couple of flowers but just too early for fruit, i guess.

Planted: 2009

Height 0.75 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

When I Fertilise: Spring

Organic Status:Organic

caperberry ^5/10

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My two plants have finally arrived after being on back order for months. Must prepare the right spot now and try to keep these expensive little darlings alive.

Planted: 2011

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Blueberry - Misty (Seedling)

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Small cream flowers with a blueberry base! 

New growth in this its first spring; fruits maturing. It does indeed like the red soils up here at Maleny.

Planted: 2011

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: blood and bone; compost

When I Fertilise: Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Comments

Water on first planting - after NO

Raspberry - Heritage

Blueberry - Biloxi

Blueberry - Backyard Blue

Mulberry - Black English (Seedling)

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Maybe not this variety - but has black juicy mulberries (the regular type of mulberry). Beautifully sweet if left to get ripe on the tree.

Love the currawongs (sort of) who share the harvest. And a fig bird too!

Fruiting Months September and October

Planted: 2008

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pruned By: 30% in After Fruiting

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Comments

Water NEVER!