InsanityShard's Edible Backyard

Banana Bush

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They're actually sugar bananas. Tiny, smaller than ladyfingers, but incredibly sweet and nice. Seems to fruit completely randomly and sporadically, and when one fruits, it dies and makes a new small plant so they're entirely self sustaining. You can leave the fruit on for months, it never gets bigger or ripens once it's done, you have to cut it off to make it ripen once it stops growing. Then it just pours out massive amounts of whitish juice from where you cut it for ages.

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 14

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Persimmon - Twentieth Century (A) ^1/10

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No clue what kind of persimim is actually is, it makes really big fruit bigger than your fist, bright yellow, very very hard. Only ever seen the fruit once since my stepdad started trying to kill it and the lemon tree. Like the lemon, massively insanely hardy.

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Mango - Royal Red ^7/10

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It's a pretty big mango tree that was in the backyard when we moved in. No idea when it was planted or how long it's been there but it fruits every year and attracts lots of cockatoos. I don't actually like mangos. But the trees there, and others like mangoes, especially the cockatoos. Never get the fruit, though, since all the animals get it first.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, September, October, November, December

Height 7 metres

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 9 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Orange ^1/10

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It's either the Mandarin or the Orange. One of them got lost during the drought and the tags fell off ages ago so we can't remember which one... It's covered in fruit, though, so not too long of a wait.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Passionfruit - Panama Red ^10/10

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Not sure it's actually this, we lost the tags on pretty much all the fruit. It was actually called royal red or something, big fist sized fruits on a massive vine that covers over half of my big bottlebrush trees canopy. Always drops green fruit since the cockatoos pull them off and nibble at half of them. Very rarely fruitbats go for them too. It's on a hill, so no ladder possible, all the fruit is out of our reach. Pretty much never stops fruiting except in extreme drought or cold.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, May, August, October, November, December

Planted: 2014

Height 20 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 15 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Mandarin (Seedling) ^1/10

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It's either the Mandarin or the Orange. One of them got lost during the drought and the tags fell off ages ago so we can't remember which one... It's covered in fruit, though, so not too long of a wait.

Fruiting Months March, April, May

Planted: 2015

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Lemon - Meyer ^4/10

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Actually no idea what kind of lemon. My stepdad keeps cutting it and the persimim back, he wants them gone but they're so hardy you can cut them down to the ground and they'll just pop back up. No idea when it was planted, it, the mango, the persimim, and one of the grape vines were here when we moved in.

Qty: 1

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot (Seedling) ^10/10

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This one fruits every year and it very nice to watch.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, December

Planted: 2014

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

So many ants...

Dwarf Mulberry - Black (Seedling) ^8/10

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It's right next to a dwarf Red Mulberry but for some reason it's never had fruits to full growth. This year, with high drought was the first time it;s grown fruit but the birds ate them all so I never got to try them. The fruits on this one are long but the ones on my Red Mulberry are very short.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, December

Planted: 2015

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Ants keep eating the fruit off the mulberries, but I don't want to spray them because the birds like them too and I feed them to my budgies.

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