Carol3's Edible Backyard
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22/11/21 Frost: About My Edible BackyardWhy Carol3 Love's Edible Plants I like to have a productive and useful garden. I am on shallow acid sulfate soil on a clay base. Being in the wet tropics, rainfall is in metres per year, with distinct wet and dry seasons. Plants need to survive heat and humidity. The main fruit trees have a northerly aspect, but I grow a few tropical herbs in semi-shaded positions where they are protected from the western sun. Even the vegetable patch needs some shade in summer. Comments* You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Fruit Tree Forum LikesCarol3 has LIKED the following:Fruit trees that can tolerate wet feet - Hi Everyone, persimmon, jack fruit, canistel, mulberry, banana and pepino will all handle wet feet for a fair while, ours do, we have a seasonal swamp and in wet years it's continually wet and these trees are thriving asimina triloba will grow in shade o..Liked Answer 2281 days 5hrs |
Brazilian Sissoo Spinach 9/10Carol3's Edible FruitsUpdate: 2262 days 3hrs Comments: - A good year round supplier of leafy greens. Good spinach substitute for tropical climate. Should be cooked if consumed in large amounts due to oxalic acid content. Can be eaten raw in salads, etc but consumption should be restricted of the raw leaf. Height 30 Centimetres Growing: In the Ground Qty: 1 Water Given in: Summer Pollination: No When I Fertilise: Never Organic Status:Organic Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Vanilla Vine (Cutting) 7/10Carol3's Edible FruitsUpdate: 2282 days 3hrs Comments: - Putting forth good growth but yet to flower or fruit. Only a young plant. Planted: 2014 Height 1 metres Growing: In a Pot Qty: 1 Sun/Shade: Full Shade Water Given in: Summer and Spring Pollination: Hand Pollination When I Fertilise: Never Pest Control: Ducks Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report CommentsCarol3 says... [4354 days 3hrs ago]* You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Cassava Carol3's Edible FruitsUpdate: 4910 days 8hrs Height 2 metres Growing: In the Ground Qty: 3 Sun/Shade: Full Sun Pollination: Self Pollination When I Fertilise: Never Pest Control: Ducks Organic Status:Organic Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report * You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Passionfruit - Panama Red Carol3's Edible FruitsUpdate: 4910 days 8hrs Comments: - A sweet, abundantly fruiting plant. Fruiting Months January and December Height 30 metres Growing: In the Ground Qty: 3 First Fruited: 1 Years from Seed Sun/Shade: Medium Sun Pollination: Self Pollination When I Fertilise: Never Pest Control: Ducks Organic Status:Organic Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report 2 of 3 people found this review useful* You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Papaya- Yellow YD1B Hybrid (Seedling) 10/10 Carol3's Edible FruitsUpdate: 4910 days 8hrs Comments: - Volunteer from compost in which fallen fruit had been disposed. Planted: 2009 Height 1 metres Growing: In a Pot Qty: 1 First Fruited: 1 Years from Seed Sun/Shade: Full Sun Water Given in: Summer Pollination: Cross Pollination Cross Pollinator Variety: Unknown - in neighbourhood When I Fertilise: Never Pest Control: Ducks Organic Status:Organic Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report 1 of 2 people found this review useful* You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
Cardamon Ginger (Cutting) 10/10 Carol3's Edible FruitsUpdate: 4910 days 9hrs Comments: - Aromatic culinary herb. Planted: 2009 Height 60 Centimetres Growing: In the Ground Sun/Shade: Medium Sun Water Given in: Summer Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report 10 of 29 people found this review useful* You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
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TRIED BUT DIED
Cinnamon Tree 1/10 Carol3's Edible FruitsUpdate: 2282 days 3hrs Comments: - Very disappointed to lose this plant. The young plant wilted shortly after transplanting to its permanent position in the garden. Although I watered it in well, it did not recover from wilting. Consequetly, I continued to thoroughly water it, erected a shadecloth barrier around it to protect it from what appeared to be scorched spots on its leaves. Too late, I identified the problem as a Phytophthera pathogen. No way to save a plant from this disease. Although I would dearly love to grow another Cinnamom, I am hesitant to try again due to the cost of the plant and all likelihood that another would also succumb to the disease, even if I planted it in another section of the garden. My many attempts to grow Mango, and a few other suseptible plants, make me very wary as this pathogen lies dormant in soil until the right conditions (here, namely the wet season) present themselves for it to arise once again. Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report 1 of 1 people found this review useful* You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
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TRIED BUT DIED
Wampee (Seedling) Carol3's Edible FruitsUpdate: 4354 days 3hrs Comments: - I think waterlogging in the wet season caused its demise. Height 30 Centimetres Growing: In the Ground Qty: 1 Sun/Shade: Full Sun Water Given in: Summer Pollination: Self Pollination When I Fertilise: Never Pest Control: Ducks Organic Status:Organic Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report 2 of 8 people found this review useful* You need your own My Edibles Page to contribute Quick & Easy |
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