Maureen's Edible Backyard

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Location: Mudgeeraba

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Sarsops - They are green now, what color do I wait for? Thanks, Maureen..3688 days 15hrs
Sarsops - ..3692 days 15hrs
Sarsops - I have a few Black sarsops cumming into fruit,When do you pick them? Help!!! Maureen..3692 days 15hrs
Rasberry bushes - My plant is now fruiting, and this is in Mudgeeraba, QLD. We have a very cold winter here, down to 0 some mornings, but no frost. We are too high in the mountains. The fruiting is just starting, one only berry so far. The chooks are looking at it frequen..3697 days 14hrs
Chocolate pudding plant1 - Dwarf peach trees, are the supposed to loose all their leaves now that it is getting colder, not sure. They are only a year old in this environment and I surpose this is what they do. Also, when do you pick black sarsops, how do you know when they are rip..3705 days 14hrs
No subject200 - My dwafe peach tree has lost all of it's leaves, I presume because of the winter. Is this so? When are you getting in the frost free angle peaches?..3705 days 14hrs
Rasberry bushes - I am hoping that the chicken manure will help with the rasberry bush. It did not receive regular fertalising until now, it is now constant. I am not trying to directly fertalise my bush but wanting to do it indirectly with the bush beside the chicken coo..3724 days 14hrs
Possums vs apples - The possums are eating or sampling the fruit before they are ripe/red. Maybe not as picky as elsewhere. I have bird net over them at the moment and am going to put paper bags over each when it stops raining here. Maureen..3842 days 15hrs
Apples and peaches vs possums - Guns are not a solution, particularly, 1. we do not own one 2. not good around here on the Gold Coast. Too many here already. Home of them on the Gold coast second to Melbourne and Sydney, just watch the news. Thanks, Maureen..3849 days 16hrs
Possums vs apples - Thanks, but a gun would not be a choice in Mudgeeraba, a suburb of the Gold Coast. Too many guns around on the coast let alone in the hinterland. Maureen..3849 days 16hrs
Your sugestion - Look at the other growers in your region, what is successful, talk to your neighbours. Apples sounds good, Blueberries sounds great - profit wise. Have you seen the cost of them here in QLD? You need to research the region and what grows there. Talking to..3849 days 16hrs
Passionfruit4 - My answer to this is just let them go, I am not a professional with these things, but on the Gold Coast, I just let them go. I have a passionfruit vine trailing over out back landing and door. It gets the western sun and very little else and we get a lo..3849 days 16hrs
My questions keep on growing - Hi J. I grow rasberrys in Mudgeeraba from a plant that I bought from bunnings. I have given my daughter a shoot/cane and waiting to see if it goes off. She has it in a pot in Southport. The key with these plants is cutting them back big time at the end o..3849 days 16hrs
Rasberry bushes - Hi Elizabeth, my plants did not do anything for at least a year. You have to be patient I think, wait for the flowers. Maureen..3850 days 15hrs
Rasberry bushes - Hi guys, I bought a couple of rasberry bushes from bunnings a couple of years ago. We live in the Hinterlant of the Gold Coast. I now have one bush that is sending out new shoots and have a lot of berries on them, the key is to cut them back hard each ye..3852 days 14hrs

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