L1's Edible Backyard

Joined: 30/03/11 Updated: 22/10/12 Frost:
Location: North Ryde

About My Edible Backyard

Comments

Dwarf Avocado - Wurtz (A) (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: - Set 2 small fruit this year, but may not hold.

Planted: 2011

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Sheppard

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic lifter

Avocado - Shepard (B) (Grafted) ^6/10

Comments: -

Set small fruit after 1 year but dropped them soon after. Flowering again now, but none set yet.

Planted: 2011

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Wurtz

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic lifter

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Nectarine - Sunset Backyard Beauty (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: -

A beautiful tree in flower, and I would love to taste some fruit unaffected by fruit fly - maybe next year! 

Developed leaf curl immediately after domancy - left it too late with the lime sulfer spray.

Fruiting Months January and December

Planted: 2011

Height 40 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Fruit Harvest: 0.1 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Sunset Peach

Pest Control: Should have bagged the fruit - was attacked terribly by fruit fly and slugs here in Sydney.

Blueberry - Sunshine Blue (Cutting) ^7/10

Comments: -

This is a Nellie Kelly blueberry - I adore these plants. I allowed them to fruit in the first year, and they gave a couple of punnets of blueberries in total between the two.

Make sure you let the berries atay on the bush for a week or so after turning blue - they are still sour when they forst turn, but lovely and sweet if you give them time.

Fruiting Months January, November, December

Planted: 2011

Height 30 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 0.2 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 11 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic lifter for fruit

Pest Control: Multiguard slug pellets. Slugs are the only pest I have found on these lovely plants.

Organic Status:Organic

Question: How to prune this after fruiting? To a roundish shape, or should I be selective with the growth I prune?

Dwarf Mulberry - Black ^10/10

Comments: - Grows extremely fast! Fruits prolifically for a young tree, but the slugs love it!

Fruiting Months January, February, March

Planted: 2010

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.2 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Pest Control: Slugs love the mulberries - I use Multiguard slug pellets

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Question: How much to prune this after fruiting?

Dwarf Apple - Tropical Anna ^8/10

Comments: - Fruit was wonderfully sweet - better than I imagined. Extremely early variety (ripe for Christmas).

Fruiting Months December

Planted: 2010

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.2 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Dwarf Golden Dorset

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control: Gave two apples in the first year - both attacked by some type of grub just before ripening, but easily cut out. Will bag the fruit next year. 

Organic Status:Organic

Thornless Waldo ^5/10

Fruiting Months December

Height 30 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Raspberry - Williamette ^5/10

Fruiting Months December

Planted: 2011

Qty: 6

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Dwarf Peach - Sunset Backyard Beauty (Grafted) ^5/10

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Sunset Nectarine

Dwarf Apple - Granny Smith (Grafted) ^6/10

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: PinkLady (tree is a two way multigraft)

Dwarf Orange - Navelina (Grafted) ^6/10

Height 0.6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Fig Black Genoa ^8/10

Height 0.6 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^8/10

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Dwarf Apple - Dorsett Golden ^5/10

Height 0.7 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Dwarf Tropical Anna

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Dwarf Mandarin - Emperor (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: - Died from root rot. I overwatered when in the pot, and after transplanting to the ground it never recovered. 

Planted: 2011

Height 0.7 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Partially Organic