My Edible Fruit Trees: Strawberry Trees NSW

Strawberry - Sugarbaby

Strawberry - Redlands Joy

Strawberry - Lowanna

Guava - Strawberry (Grafted) ^8/10

Planted: 2019

Pollination: No

Strawberry - Sugarbaby ^9/10

Comments: - Also growing pinkies . Dotted around the place . They don't like self watering pots , too wet.

Planted: 2013

Qty: 15

Fruit Harvest: 0.3 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Pollination: Self Pollination

Wild Strawberry (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: - Alpine strawberries ,the original strawberry . Taser a little more like a raspberry and strawberry cross , very small ,but grow on mass and they are worth it . Grown from Yates seed from Coles . Had them for years .

Planted: 2014

Height 0.1 metres

Qty: 15

Fruit Harvest: 0.3 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Pollination: Self Pollination

Guava - Strawberry

Comments: - I have a strawberry guava , that is quite nice , but recently found a extra sweet bright red version , that I'm growing from seed , love the little guavas , so sweet . Seeds now 2 X 4 inch plants .

Planted: 2012

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control: fruit fly prone , eco oil and fruit fly traps .

Guava - Strawberry (Cutting) ^8/10

Comments: -

small cutting planted. looking foward to the fruit.

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Guava - Strawberry ^7/10

Comments: -

Strawberry Guava aka Cherry Guava aka Cattley Guava (Psidium cattleyanum)

A good "grazing" shrub when fruit are ripening. Quite ornamental, suited as a screen. Planted one of the red and one of the yellow fruited Strawberry Guavas. The yellow (photo) suffers from Qld fruit fly, but so far the red is less affected. So I'd say the red is a better shrub. ( I'll eventually get rid of the yellow)

Taste of reds vary a bit - I know of a red in somebody's yard with bigger and much yummier fruits than others I've tried, but the Qld ff think it's yummier too.

So I would give the yellow a Satisfaction rating of 3. The red I'd give 6. And if I could find one of the big yummy kind then that would be a 9.

It is classed as a weed in wet sub-tropics and wet tropics.

Update Sept 2018 - the yellow one is gradually becoming sicker looking - probably time to dig it out shortly. The red one looks fine. 

Fruiting Months February and March

Planted: 2012

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 1 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: NPK

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

The yellow suffers from fruit fly, so I use a big mosi net over it.

But so far the red doesn't need anything.

Organic Status:Organic

Guava - Strawberry (Seedling)

Comments: - New growth & healthy. 

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Wild Strawberry

Strawberry mixed (Seedling) ^7/10

Comments: - I have 5 different types of strawberries growing in a stackable tower of 20 pots.

Fruiting Months October

Height 0.1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 20

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Never

Organic Status:Organic

Guava - Strawberry

Planted: 2017

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Organic Status:Organic

Irish Strawberry Tree ^6/10

Comments: -

Arbutus unedo

Apparently you'll only try this one once.  Suppose to be a very nice tree with red and yellow lage marble size fruits

Planted: 2009

Height 0.4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Never

Strawberry - Sugarbaby

Comments: - 1 plant produces 4  - 6 good runners for propagation. 

Planted: 2012

Qty: 300

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Guava - Strawberry

Planted: 2010

Wild Strawberry (Cutting) ^9/10

Comments: - Not sure what cultivar of strawberry this is. Small leaves are a much lighter green than most of the varieties I usually see. Also much hardier than others; being the only variety out of about 7 that has thrived at home. Been growing it for a couple of seasons now and have had enough runners to propagate more plants, but have yet to do so. Strawberries are small (1-2cm max) but are the most flavoursome strawberries I have ever tasted. berries can be coloured from orange to crimson and are very soft. Fruit spoil quickly, so best eaten straight from the plant. Likes water, but can go dry for a while. Flowers are white, never pink.

Height 10 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Guava - Strawberry (Cutting) ^8/10

Planted: 2015

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Water Given in: Spring

Strawberry - Lowanna (Cutting) ^10/10

Comments: -

I have six different types of strawberry and the Lowanna outperforms them all by a long shot.

Planted: 2014

Height 10 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

First Fruited: 1 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pest Control:

Bird mesh

Organic Status:Organic

Guava - Strawberry (Seedling)

Planted: 2014

Guava - Strawberry

Guava - Strawberry (Seedling)

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Guava - Strawberry (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: -

Planted in pots in full sun. Nice little shrub, fairly drought hardy but needs daily watering when hot because the pots are relatively small.

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Organic Status:Organic

Guava - Strawberry (Seedling) ^8/10

Comments: -

tasty little berry that produce little bounties perfect for kids. easy to grow and have had mucg sucess in the past

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Guava - Strawberry (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: - Great tasting fruit and tree. Growing in a pot and has a great shape, leaf and bark. 

Fruiting Months January, February, March

Planted: 2006

Height 2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 1 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 10% in After Fruiting

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic Lifter, Compost

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control: Fruit Fly baits

Organic Status:Organic

Irish Strawberry Tree - arbutus canariensis

Comments: -

Summer 2010: This one was a gift from my sister. She picked it cause it sounded interesting (and she knew I didn't already have it!).

The flowers are pretty but it hasn't fruited yet. It does have lovely bright green new growth.

Spring 2011: lots of new growth. Since spring started it has doubled in volume!

Summer 2011: I don't think that it likes all the rain. Getting brown patches on the inside of a lit of the folliage. Fingers crossed the weather warms up soon.

Summer 2012: The browning has stopped but the growing tips were all getting droopy. I decided not to cut them off just in case and it paid off cause there was nothing wrong with them - they were flowering!!!

Planted: 2010

Height 0.75 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic Lifter, Seasol, Charlie Carp, worm juice (in rotation)

Pest Control: Ants seem to be farming some sort of GINORMOUS fat black bloated scale things on the hardened off branches (just where the leaves come out). I picked as many off as I could and then sprayed it with pest oil.

Guava - Strawberry ^9/10

Planted: 2012

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Strawberry

Planted: 2009