MiltonT's Edible Backyard

Chilli - Mini Mama (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: - This is a little bell capsicum that you buy stuffed with fetta at delis. Cute plane fruits very well if well fed

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.4 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 80% in After Fruiting and Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Ginger QLD (Cutting) ^8/10

Comments: -

Fresh Ginger is great and it keeps well in any case idf you take the old stuff

Planted: 2011

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 3

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Strawberry - Pink ^10/10

Comments: -

Prolific fruiterer and runs freely

Fruiting Months February, March, April

Planted: 2010

Height 0.25 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 3

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Strawberry - Temptation (Cutting) ^10/10

Comments: -

Fruits heavily and for a long season

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, November, December

Planted: 1985

Height 0.25 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 12

Fruit Harvest: 6 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Chilli Inferno ^10/10

Comments: -

Cute, hot and flavoursome. Small (not tiny) pointed fruit is held upright and goes from yellow-sh green through almost black to red. Can be eaten at any stage but even in yellowish state is fairly warm.

Fruiting Months February, March, April, May

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.4 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 80% in After Fruiting and Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Strawberry - Lowanna (Cutting) ^10/10

Comments: -

Beatiful fruit, good cropper

Fruiting Months February, March, April

Height 0.2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 0.5 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Organic Status:Organic

Chilli Czech Black ^10/10

Comments: -

Very pretty, fruits well and is possibly the nicest flavoured chilli I have ever tasted when it goes red. Starts off black and will sunburn in the Melbourne summer sun if totally exposed.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, May, December

Height 0.4 metres

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.25 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 80% in After Fruiting and Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Chilli Black Cuban (Seedling)

Comments: -

Cute plant, small black fruits with nice taste and a bit of bite. Mine get much hotter than the nursery tag says they will.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April

Planted: 2011

Height 0.3 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.1 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 80% in After Fruiting and Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Chilli - Bell ^10/10

Comments: -

Great addition to salads, excellent for stuffing and baking

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, May, December

Planted: 2009

Height 0.8 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 7

Fruit Harvest: 5 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 80% in After Fruiting, Autumn, Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Chilli - Yellow Habanero (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: -

Pretty, I have the yellow variety, hot and flavoursome. Great in cooking and in salsa

Fruiting Months March, April, May

Height 0.3 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.5 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 80% in After Fruiting and Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Chilli - Rocoto Tree (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: -

Unusual plant, pretty, very fruitful, nice flavour but fairly hot, around 60,000 - 120,000 Scoville Heat Units

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, May

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 90% in After Fruiting

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Chilli - Birds Eye (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: -

Cooking and eating raw. I have the tiny Birds Eye Thai, quite hot even when green and the commercial supermarket birds eye

Fruiting Months February, March, April

Planted: 2011

Height 0.2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 80% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Wild Strawberry (Cutting) ^10/10

Comments: -

Decorative and unusual flavour useful in cooking

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, December

Planted: 2005

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 30

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Advanced Lime - Kaffir ^10/10

Comments: -

Thai cooking, e.g. Tom Yum Goong. Both leaves and zest add nice flavours

Fruiting Months March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November

Height 1.2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 1 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 5% in After Fruiting

Pollination: Self Pollination

Society Garlic ^10/10

Comments: -

Love garlic and fresh is much better. Grows in old wheelbarrow and around crops to protect from insects.

Qty: 20

Pollination: Self Pollination

Galangal (Cutting) ^10/10

Planted: 2012

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 4

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Garlic Chives ^10/10

Comments: -

It comes up every year and adds nice flavoutrs to many dishes

Planted: 2005

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 10

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^10/10

Fruiting Months March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Pruned By: 10% in After Fruiting and Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control:

contact spray when gall beetles are about to emerge

Dwarf Orange - Washington Navel (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: -

Convenient, favourite orange variety, pretty and fruits well in pot.

Fruiting Months May, June, July

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 10% in After Fruiting

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Plum - Mariposa ^10/10

Comments: -

Need it as cross-polinator and fruit is lovely, keesp well, makes great jam

Fruiting Months January and December

Planted: 2011

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pruned By: 20% in After Fruiting and Summer

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Pluot. Plum/Apricot cross ^10/10

Comments: -

Best tasting fruit ever and crops well

Fruiting Months January and December

Planted: 2009

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 35% in After Fruiting and Summer

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Mariposa Plum

When I Fertilise: Never

Cherry - Sunburst (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: -

Fruits well with early and late varieties

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2008

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 10% in After Fruiting and Summer

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Dwarf Nectarine - Trixzie® Nectazee ^5/10

Comments: -

Taste and convenience and a pretty dwarf tree

Fruiting Months January, November, December

Planted: 2007

Height 1 metres

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 1 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Olive - Kolossus Kalamata (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: -

Love Olives and pretty tree in front lawn

Fruiting Months March and April

Planted: 2009

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 3 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pruned By: 10% in After Fruiting, Autumn, Winter

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Peach - Aztec Gold (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: -

Beautiful taste

Planted: 2012

Height 0.3 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: No

(Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: -

Available fruit for months, Pink Lady and Granny Smith on one stock

Fruiting Months March, April, May

Planted: 2006

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 10 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Water Given in: Summer

Pruned By: 30% in After Fruiting, Summer, Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none

Pest Control:

Mancozeb for Black Spot and Carbyryl for Codlin Moth

Organic Status:Pesticides Used

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