Elaine's Edible Backyard

Joined: 01/12/13 Updated: 01/12/13 Frost:
Location: brisbane

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Kiwi fruit female has no leaves - my query is about the new shoots on a very young female vine-- I purchased it last year as I have a very mature male vine and my previous 3 attempts with females all failed. This time I put it in a pot to overwinter before planting out. It has broken dorm..4935 days 12hrs
Capulin cherry - your pics of the flower racemes are totally different to my young capulin which flowered for the first time a few weeks ago, also mine doesn't have those small leaf edge serrations! The flowers were a very fine 6cm raceme with tiny little white flowers a..4935 days 14hrs
Davidsons plum4 - my tree is still only about 25cm high after a couple of years-- we've had plenty of rain this year so it's not insufficient water-- I don't know what fertiliser it prefers, so have just used some citrus fertiliser and dynamic lifter occasionally. It'..5147 days 9hrs
Passiflora varieties - re Alata--have cut and tried the fruit-- it has a nice honey-passion flavour. The seeds being larger than a common passionfruit (which I normally dont bother to remove) present a slight problem. I squashed the pulp around in a strainer to keep the seeds s..5424 days 13hrs
Passiflora varieties - at last the first of the alata fruit are changing colour to orange-- Dont know if I can pick them at this stage (still greenish at top third of the fruit) and finish ripening inside-- I know the possums will grab them at the right time if I delay-- They k..5432 days 13hrs