Feedingtimeatthezoo's Edible Backyard

Joined: 13/12/13 Updated: 20/07/14 Frost:
Location: CRANBOURNE

About My Edible Backyard

Why Feedingtimeatthezoo Love's Edible Plants

Biggest challenge is space and shading - 70 sq (horizontal) metres in long-term but rented accommodation.

Plants all mostly in pots so soil not relevant but where plants are in-ground the soil is improved loam fill.

Annual rainfall, as for outer SE Melbourne.

Sheltered yard faces north with some morning and afternoon shade, hot spots near the brick wall of the house. Problems with burning of some plants in high summer so aim eventually to net/shade the entire yard. Neighbour's Japanese elm now getting too tall and providing bit too much shade form all but midsummer sun!

Worm-thieving, pot-digging, plant-root-exposing blackbirds are my nemesis!

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feedingtimeatthezoo says... [4254 days 19hrs ago]

Plant list at July 2014 (includes seasonal veg/flower etc in seed stock): Blueberry Cape Gooseberry Currant Black Currant Red Kiwi Berry (Hardy Kiwi) Raspberry Raspberry Atherton (native) Strawberries Thornless Youngberry Pepino Kendall Gold Passionfruit Nelly Kelly Tomato Cherry (Black) Tomato Cherry (Red) Tomato Cherry Tomato Mini Roma Corn Sweet Corn Painted Cucamelons/Mexican Sour Gherkins Cucumber Crystal Salad Cucumber Lebanese Gourd Bottle (Large) Gourd Bottle (Mini) Gourd Lufa Pumpkin Butternut Pumpkin Golden Nugget Pumpkin Small Sugar Watermelon Sugar Baby Zucchini Eggplant Turkish Orange Beans Dwarf Capsicum Cherry Capsicum Sweet bell Capsicum Mini Bell Peppers Capsicum Red Basil Perennial Basil Sweet Bay Tree Borage Calendulas Camomile German Chives Comfrey Coriander Dill Lemongrass Marigolds Marjoram Mint Nasturtium 'Olive Oil' Plant Parsley Rosemary - prostrate Sugar herb Sunflowers Dwarf Sunflowers Giant Tansy Tea Plant (x2) Thyme Vietnamese Mint Beetroot Carrots Parsnip Chard Lettuces Mizuna Mustard Greens Red Giant Potatoes Radishes Rhubarb Rocket Spinach Wild Spinach English Spinach Kangkong (Water Spinach) Yacon - Apple Of The Earth Arrowroot Finger Lime (native) Byron Surprise Finger Lime (native) Yellow Kumquat Nagami Lemon Bush/rough Lemon Lemonade Lemon Meyer Lime Key (West Indian) Lime Tahitian Mandarin Imperial Orange Lane's Late Orange Valencia Orange Washington Navel Avocado Bacon Drumstick/Horseradish tree Fig Black Genoa Fig Brown Turkey Fig White Adriatic Guava Pineapple (Fejoia) Guava Chilean Guava ?Common/?Apple Guava Strawberry Japanese Raisin Mulberry (black) Olive Manzanilla Olive Kalamata Peanut butter fruit tree Pomegranate Rosavaya Tamarillo Apple Fuji Apple Granny Smith Apple Pink Lady Pear Trixzee Cherry Simone Nectarine White Satin Nectarine - Dwarf (Nectazee) Nectazee Nectarine/plum hybrid Plumzee Peach Trixzee Peach Tropic Snow Plum (Japanese blood) Mariposa Plum (Japanese yellow) Santa Rosa Maqui berry Plum (Japanese blood) Satsuma Brazilian cherry Kumquat Meiwa Grumichama Black Persimmon Ichikikijiro

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Fruit trees in pots - Here's a few of my pots earlier in the year - love reading you comments and encouraged that I'm doing much of what's been discussed ... except maybe not feeding enough, so gonna fee them all up soon! Also had mass problems this season with unsuccessful co..3785 days 14hrs
Maqui berry - Just got one today (2 May 2014) - Cranbourne Bunnings - only one other there :)..4332 days 21hrs

Apple - Snow

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Dwarf Cherry - Trixzie White Cheree

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Lime - Australian Red Centre/Blood (CSIRO mandarindx native lime)

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Plum - Satsuma

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Dwarf

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Salal - Gaultheria shallon

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Plum x nectarine - Plumzee (dwarf)

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Plum - Satsuma

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Plum - Santa Rosa

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Plum - Mariposa

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Pear - Trixzee (dwarf)

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Olive

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Manzanilla

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

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Feijoa

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Fig Black Genoa

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Dwarf Orange - Valencia

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Dwarf Lime - Tahitian

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Dwarf Lemonade

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macqui berry

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Plum - Satsuma

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Brazilian Cherry

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Kumquat - Meiwa

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Grumichama - Black

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Dwarf Persimmon - Ichikikijiro (NA)

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Planted: 2014

Qty: 1

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Kumquat - Nagami

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Arrowroot

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Fig White Adriatic

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Drumstick Tree ( Moringa )

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Planted: 2014

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Tea

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Planted: 2013

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

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Guava - Golden

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Planted: 2012

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: No

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Fig - Brown Turkey

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Struck from a sucker from a friend's tree around 1993. Took quite a few years to establish. I do nothing to it - water only in the hottest part of summer and has never been fertilised. Fruiting well last few years after a heavy prune to keep it under 2m ... and I now actually GET the fruit since I started netting it from the birds! Lovely fruit when dried.

Planted: 1993

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

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Raspberry

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Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 6

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

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Raspberry - Atherton

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Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

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Cape Gooseberry

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Yummmmm!

Planted: 2013

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 3

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

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Currant - Red

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Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

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Currant - Black

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Planted: 2012

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

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Berry - Youngberry Thornless

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Planted: 2013

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

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Blueberry

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Planted: 2012

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

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Kiwiberry Seedling

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Planted: 2013

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

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Basil - perennial

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Tastes very different to sweet basil - sort of 'furry' (odd I know!), and spreads in the ground like mint, so banished to a pot after one season.

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

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Passionfruit - Select Black

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Planted: 2012

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

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Rosemary

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Planted: 2012

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

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Vietnamese Mint

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Love this herb; use it every day but grows so well I can't keep up with it! Likes lots of water and doesn't keep long once cut so best used fresh.

Planted: 2012

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

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Comfrey

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Planted: 2012

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

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Sugar Herb - Stevia

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Planted: 2013

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Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

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Rhubarb - Sydney Crimson

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Planted: 2012

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

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Yacon - Apple of the Earth

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Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

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Olive - Kalamata

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Planted: 2012

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Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

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Tamarillo - Red

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Pomegranate - Rosavaya

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Pepino - Kendall Gold

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Qty: 1

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Peanut Butter Tree

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Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

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Peach - Tropic Snow

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Qty: 1

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Dwarf Peach

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Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

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Dwarf Orange - Washington Navel

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Sun/Shade: Full Sun

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Dwarf Nectarine - Trixzie® Nectazee

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Nectarine - White Satin

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Dwarf Mulberry - Black

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Dwarf Lemon - Meyer

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Dwarf Mandarin - Imperial

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Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

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Key lime

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Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

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Japanese Raisin

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Planted: 2013

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Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

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Guava - Chilean

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Guava - Strawberry

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Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

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Finger Lime - Red

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Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

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Finger Lime - Yellow

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Planted: 2013

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

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Bush Lemon Tree (Seedling) ^10/10

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Hardy tree, prolific fruiter, nice non-acid light lemon flavoured juice and lovely sweet rind.

Fruiting Months September and October

Planted: 1995

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

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