Squatter's Edible Backyard

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Catalogue - I've just downloaded your most-excellent Catalogue via PDF. However, it appears that there are no page-numbers! I can live with this but resent the extra work involved from not collecting the pages as they feed out! Thanks for the great book!..5055 days 21hrs
Peppino - Fruit sagging to the ground is very common. Easy solution....drive 1-metre bamboo stakes into the ground around the plant. attach some material to the stakes and to the fruit-bearing stalks. I use "TwisTees" but garden string or wool will do the job. A..5298 days 20hrs
Peppino - Build tripods of bamboo or any lightweight sticks and guide the fruit onto these using soft string (to avoid bruising). It can be quite fun, constructing these tripods and they can be manipulated to suit the shape of each bush. Try turning the fruit occas..5532 days 20hrs
Peppino - Thanks for all the helpful input about my caterpillar problem. (I've never had any slug or snail probs with my Peppinos. I think my problem is codling moth. A local garden centre talked me into buying a pherome trap (red) which catches male moths...6418 days 22hrs
Peppino - Kai Oar! I've had my peppino for 3 years....2nd year it produced a good yield of fruits, one nearly 0.5 kilo! This year it has massive fruiting of medium size. However, some critter is munching it. It is a caterpillar-fella. Anybody know what this migh..6449 days 21hrs