Andrew's Edible Backyard

Joined:26/11/08 Updated:20/01/10 Frost:
Location: Greta

About My Edible Backyard

Why Andrew Love's Edible Plants

all of my fruit trees are growing in pot sizes from 430mm to 500mm

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Star apple pests and diseases - Hey Peter, I thought that might be the case-Ive only ever seen the empty "shells" so to speak-i will give the white oil a hit and see what happens when it stops raining. Cheers Pete Andrew..6192 days 22hrs
Star apple pests and diseases - Gday peoples, Has anyone tried growing star apples and noticed little hard shelled,(though easily squashed between the fingers) coverings on leaves??I am guessing it may be the left over of some sort of egg/larvae protection maybe scale or something-I..6193 days 2hrs
Persimmon - Hi Jo, Basically the difference between A and N/A is the tannin levels in the fruit themselves-with A types the fruit must be very very ripe and soft, with N/A it can be picked quite hard and from what i have heard tastes pretty good!!I think most pers..6193 days 2hrs
Very sick pawpaw - Hi Lex, That paw paw looks very sick indeed-from looking at your picture i would assume that it has or is suffering some sort of stress be it water or fertilizer.Did you fertilize the area where you planted recently??I would suggest from my experience..6228 days 20hrs
Sweetsop leaf conditions - sounds great Wayne, i hope we can sort this thing out.Another thing i just remembered is that before the conditions worsened i applied a foliar,root spray which by memory was a yates fruit and flower product, could just be coincidence but certainly will b..6234 days 7hrs