My Edibles: Berry Trees QLD

Midyim Berry (Seedling)

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This is supposed to be one of the few really tasty bush-tucker fruits so I thought I'd try it. Fruit is a small berry that is white with blue-black spots. Generally free of pests and diseases. Is low-growing (gen. 80-100cm) and can be planted in most spots as long as ground is constantly moist.

Planted: 2012

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 3

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Should only need bird-netting for fruit.

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot (Grafted)

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I love, and now the kids too, mulberrys. This variety sounds great - a dwarf tree with tasty long fruit.

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Mulberry- Black

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I love, and now the children do too, the sweet and juicy fruit which is best eaten straight off the tree.  I'm not sure of variety I have, but fruit are about 30-35mm long, black and fat. Main fruiting is in spring, but can have some small, extra flushes of fruit in Summer and Autumn.  Can be messy due to staining fruit, and dropping  large leaves late Autumn (is deciduous).  Is a very fast grower and can be quite big - best to get a dwarf variety in an urban environment.  If in rural environment, go big! (Watch-out though, as livestock love the leaves and will "prune" quite heavily). 

Fruiting Months September and October

Planted: 2010

Height 3.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 1.5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years after I planted Cutting

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Manure

When I Fertilise: Yearly and Spring

Pest Control:

Nothing required.  Bird netting may be needed in some areas.

Ceylon Hill Gooseberry

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cape Gooseberry

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Blueberry - Biloxi ^9/10

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: misty

Fertiliser or Organics Used: seasol when planted, a bit of blood and bone

Organic Status:Organic

Blueberry - Misty (Cutting)

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Love blueberries, bought two 3 months ago.

Planted: 2012

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: biloxi

Fertiliser or Organics Used: seasol when planted, a bit of blood and bone

Pest Control:

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Organic Status:Organic

Panama Berry

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Fast growing good looking tree. Planted in Sep 2011 and it is nearly 2m tall, but still no fruit. I had one berry so far. Flowers are falling off for some reason. I hope it starts fruiting soon. I read about this tree and decided to grow it for the supposedly abudant fruit.

Fruiting Months February

Planted: 2011

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 1 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

Grasshoppers are hand picked and fed to chickens.

Organic Status:Organic

Question:

Why are the flowers falling off?

Dwarf Mulberry - Black

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New tree, planted 6 months ago and doubled in size since. Had a few fruits already.

Fruiting Months October and November

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 5 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

not needed yet

Organic Status:Organic

Raspberry - Atherton (Seedling) ^10/10

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Very easy to grow, bit harder to contain within one area. Growing in retaining wall now. Lots of fruit, my child loves them.

Planted: 2007

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 0.8 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control:

none

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot ^10/10

Comments: - Rich, sweet, slightly tangy, reminiscent of a good plum. Precocious, hardy, productive. What not to love.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, December

Height 1.2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 2 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Occasional liquid organic fertiliser.

Question: How big did yours get?

Strawberry - Redlands Joy

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

Pollination: No

Dwarf Mulberry - Black

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

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: