LexRuth1's Edible Backyard
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31/08/09 Frost: About My Edible BackyardWhy LexRuth1 Love's Edible Plants We have a 4 acre block on a north facing hillside. Soil is full of shale & rocks but the soil is not bad. PH is around 6. Annual rainfall should be about 875mm but we've only had 320mm in the past year. Winter nights get cold but we're unlikely to get a frost because we're well up on the hillside. Summer days can get very hot - this year we had 43C - but, normally, we'd be classed as 'temperate". We're about 8km from the sea. Because of birds and fruit bats we have to group all of our edible fruits together in an area that we can completely enclose with netting. Citrus and avocados are outside the orchard area. We get strong winds - either north-east or south-west so trees like mangos and avocados get wind-burn. We have lived here for less than a year and, in that time have planted about 40 fruit trees, 300 natives and a few exotics and established a reasonable sized vegetable garden - about 100 square metres. We've also set up a flower garden and planted about 20 roses and a couple of hundred flowering plants of one sort or another. We've already harvested around 30 pumpkins and about 50kg of potatoes and 60 or 70 sweet corn. The vegetable garden currently has lettuce, peas, broad beans, string beans, radish, cabbage, cauliflower, strawberries, asparagus, carrots, beetroot, leeks, spring onions, brown onions, garlic, rhubarb and herbs. The thin top soil needed building up so we've used our trailer to bring in many loads of compost, chicken manure and cow manure.  Comments* You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Fruit Tree Forum ContributionsLexRuth1 Forum ContributionsStriking pawpaw seeds - Thanks for all the useful info on this subject. I have a couple of questions. First, when is the ideal time to plant the seeds? Second, has anyone tried to grow them south of Sydney (but in a frost free climate zone)?..5718 days 17hrs Very sick pawpaw - We recently purchased a dozen or so fruit trees from Daleys - and they all arrived in outstanding condition. We followed the planting instructions and tended the trees each day. For Mothers' Day we went away for a long weekend. When we arrived back al..5736 days 7hrs |
banana - unknownLexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Height 3 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
persimmonLexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Planted: 2008 Height 5 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Custard Apple - Late Gold LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Height 4 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Grapefruit - Star Ruby LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Height 3 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report 0 of 1 people found this review useful* You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Grapefruit - Marshs Seedless LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Height 3 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Lemon - Eureka LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Height 3 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Orange - Valencia LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Height 4 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Orange - Washington Navel LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Height 4 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Jaboticaba LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Height 2 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Blueberry - Biloxi LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Planted: 2008 Height 2 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Cherry - Stella LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Planted: 2009 Height 8 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Nectarine - dwarf (Seedling)LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Height 2 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Apple - Pink Lady LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Planted: 2008 Height 4 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Apricot - Moorpark LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Height 4 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Lime - Tahitian LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Height 3 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Brazilian Cherry LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Height 2 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Cherimoya - White LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Grumichama - Black LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 2hrs Height 2 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Guava Hawaiian - Pink Supreme LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 3hrs Height 2 Feet Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Cherry of Rio GrandeLexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 3hrs Height 1 metres Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Longan - Seedling LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 3hrs Height 1 metres Growing: In the Ground Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report 1 of 3 people found this review useful* You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Mango - Bowen Seedling (Grafted) LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 3hrs Height 1 metres Growing: In the Ground Water Given in: Spring Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 3hrs Height 2 Feet Growing: In the Ground Water Given in: Spring Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Avocado - Reed (A) (Grafted) LexRuth1's Edible FruitsUpdate: 5627 days 3hrs Planted: 2008 Height 1 metres Growing: In the Ground Qty: 1 Water Given in: Spring Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
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