My Edible Fruit Trees: Berry Trees VIC

Alpine Strawberry (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: -

I LOVE alpine strawberries and grow white and also red fruited kinds. They are easy to grow and love light shade.

The fruits are very small but have a strong, lucious strawberry taste. The plants are clumping and most alpine varieties don't produce runners. They easily reseed themselves so you don't have to worry there. They do well in pots or in the ground. I have mine planted in a shadehouse where they look great among the ferns.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April

Planted: 1992

Height 30 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 20

Fruit Harvest: 50 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

Keep an eye out for slugs and snails. Birds often don't bother with the white ones.

Organic Status:Pesticides Used

Barbados Gooseberry - Tsunya

Comments: - The Rose Cactus, Pereskia aculeata, is also known as Barbados Gooseberry, Lemon Vine or Tsunya. Both the juicy yellow fruit and the fleshy leaves are edible. The plant grows well in Melbourne but so far it has never flowered or fruited here.

Planted: 2017

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Baw Baw Berry (Cutting)

Comments: - Wittsteinia vacciniacea, the Baw Baw Berry, is an ultra rare species endemic to Victoria growing only in a few locations in alpine areas. Tolerant of frost and snow. Has fragrant flowers and edible greenish white fruit.

Planted: 2022

Height 20 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Berry - Blackberry

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Berry - Jostaberry

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Berry - Marionberry

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Berry - Silvanberry

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Berry - Silvanberry

Blackberry (Thornless)

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Blueberry (Cutting)

Comments: -

cant remember the variety

Growing: In a Pot

Blueberry

Planted: 2012

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

blueberry

Planted: 2009

Height 40 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 50

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Pest Control:

We are creating two blueberry lanes of varies types.

Organic Status:Certified

Blueberry - Brigitta

Planted: 2010

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: cow manure

Blueberry - Dennis ^8/10

Comments: - I purchased this variety without releasing it. I thought it was one of the other blueberry varieties I grow at home. I was told by my obsessed Blueberry-lover friend that this variety bares very large fruit with excellent flavours but unfortuantely they don't have a long shelf life and must be eaten within a day. So far it is doing great in a 50cm pot.

Height 40 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 20% in After Fruiting

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Blueberry - Highbush (Seedling) ^8/10

Comments: -

Planted in my front garden bed which is west facing two years ago, so it gets plenty of sun.  Still a young seedling and is doing ok but hasn't grown as much as I would have liked.  Last year got some fruit, this year nothing because I pruned it back hard in winter to shape it.  I seasoled a month ago.

Planted: 2009

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Blueberry - Northland (Cutting) ^9/10

Comments: -

I saw this variety at the nursery last year. I purchased 2 small plants. This variety is a relatively fast grower. Gave me heaps of flowers last year but I had to remove all the flowers because of transplanting.

I grow them in the same acidic soil mix of peat, potting mix, manure and pine bark as I used on the other acid loving plants in my garden. I have also added an addition of sulphur to the mix to make sure it stays aciddic. I have tested the soil since, and it is still good.

I am seeing a lot of new flower buds emerging from the plants this year.

Planted: 2011

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 20% in After Fruiting

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: manure, sulphur potash, trace mineral, powerfeed, slow release fertiliser

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Blueberry - Northland

BLUEBERRY - REVEILLE (Seedling)

Comments: - Purchased August 2009

Blueberry Bluerose (Cutting) ^9/10

Comments: -

Bought at Wantirna market barerooted for $35 in July 2009. The bush has been doing very well. I used 50% of peat and 50% of soil as growing medium.

This one and a smaller one had desease so I quickly bined it. I still have had 3 small ones in my garden.

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2009

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 6

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Will net when fruits are about to change colour

Organic Status:Organic

Blueberry Denise ^5/10

Comments: -

One of two that we planted - the other was Brigitte, but the latter carked it, unfortunately.  It struggles due to the slight alkalinity of the orchard bed, but I feed it azalea food, some weak vinegar-water solution and sulphate of ammonia at different times of the year to improve its living conditions.

The flowers are a delicate pink-white, very pretty.  The leaves turn gorgeous golds and reds in autumn, and they are a lovely soft green in spring and summer.  The stems are a russet colour.  A very attractive plant.  It needs a lot of water, which we can't always supply due to the bloody drought and the water restrictions, but it is shaded from the worst of the summer sun by the deciduous trees in the bed.

Once I've got a few more things in the garden sorted out, I will obtain more blueberry plants.  Our cool to cold winters mean we can grow the high- and moderate-chill varieties, which tend to be sweeter.

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2007

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 2% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Blood

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

None, except for alkaline soil tendencies.

Organic Status:Organic

blueberry- climax ^9/10

Comments: -

I bought this from Daleys. All their plants arrive in great condition and are very healthy.

I think my blueberry would like a more acidic soil than I have given it, but it is bearing fruit this year for the first time. Which is very exciting!  I keep going into the garden to look at the little ripening berries.

Cranberry (Seedling)

Disterigma alaternoides Neotropical Blueberry

Comments: -

Disterigma alaternoides

- a  Neotropical Blueberry

Originates from higher elevations in Central and South America. The fruits are sometimes sold in markets in Ecuador. Grows into a bush up to a few metres high so would probably make a good hedge. My plants have not yet fruited but expect they may take another year or two before fully mature.

Planted: 2017

Height 40 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Dwarf White Mulberry (Grafted) ^8/10

Planted: 2012

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Flueggea virosa - White Berry Bush

Comments: - The White Berry Bush, Flueggea virosa, is native to Western Australia around Broome. It bears white fleshy edible fruits that taste like peas. Hardy in Melbourne but it is dioecious so male and female plants need to be grown for fruit.

Planted: 2021

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Gooseberry

Height 0.7 metres

Growing: In the Ground