My Edible Fruit Trees: Strawberry 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

Microcachrys tetragona Strawberry Pine

Comments: -

Microcachrys tetragona, the creeping strawberry pine is a low shrub up to 1 metre, native to alpine regions in Tasmania. It is dioecious with the female plants producing edible red berries that look a bit like small strawberries. It seems easy to grow in Melbourne although it may not like the hot summers so it would be best kept in a cool shady position.

Planted: 2020

Height 20 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 3

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Strawberry - Alinta

Strawberry - Bravo ^10/10

Planted: 2020

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Strawberry - Cambridge Rival ^8/10

Comments: -

This is an heirloom variety from Diggers Club. I will never buy strawberries from the supermarket after growing these. The ripe fruit is like popping a litle ball of sweet perfume into your mouth.

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2009

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 5 Months after I planted Cutting

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring

Pruned By: 75% in After Fruiting

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Blood and Bone, Potash

Question:

What is eating my beautiful strawberries? Ants perhaps. I have found the most minute worm like bug in one of the fruit.

Strawberry - Hokowase

Planted: 2009

Height 0.2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Strawberry - Hokowase (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: -

This is an early fruiter, it's an old Japanese variety. I have it potted up in plastic containers with manure and slow release fertiliser. They don't seem to be bothered by pest or fungal infection.

The strawberries are tiny but are super sweet. I negelected the plant last year and it still gave me heaps of berries and runners. I have since re-potted the brush and it's looking a lot more healthier.

Growing: In a Pot

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Autumn and Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: manure and slow release fertiliser

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control:

No pest issue.

Organic Status:Organic

Question:

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 - Tarpan ^6/10

Comments: - Has beautiful pink flowers.

Planted: 2016

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

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

Strawberry Guava

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

Guava - Strawberry (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - We have a small strip of dirt on the side of our driveway. Instead of growing flowers or oriental plants, I decided that we would put something edible in it. I planted a row of 4 Guava plants last year. I didn't really give the plants much attention. Just planted them in some mushroom compost mixed into the soil with some slow release fertiliser. I didn't water them, I left them to their own devices. They seem to be doing fine without any extra attention. I noticed last week that they have new flower buds so finger cross we will get a couple of fruits this year. 

Planted: 2011

Height 0.4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 4

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: slow release fertiliser

When I Fertilise: Yearly and Spring

Pest Control: Nothing seem to want to attacke these guys. However I did have to use copper spray once when I noticed a couple of leaves curling.

Organic Status:Organic

Guava - Strawberry

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Guava - Strawberry (Seedling) ^5/10

Planted: 2016

Height 30 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Guava - Strawberry ^7/10

Comments: -

nice looking interesting tree

Planted: 2012

Height 1 metres

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Guava - Strawberry

Comments: -

Water: 2 or 600-900mm

Sum14- planted in full sun, the tree didnot like it. I dig it up and put it back in pot in morning sun only spot. It took a while for the tree to recover.

Win14- doing great now with lot of flower buds.

Guava - Strawberry

Comments: - Beautiful tree. Easy to grow. Flower in spring and again in February.

Planted: 2014

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Guava - Strawberry

Guava - Strawberry ^7/10

Planted: 2011

Height 1.7 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Guava - Strawberry (Cutting) ^10/10

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April

Planted: 2018

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control: nil

Organic Status:Organic

Guava - Strawberry

Guava - Strawberry (Seedling)

Height 0.5 metres

Guava - Strawberry (Seedling)

Comments: -

I love the fruit of these and our neighbour had one when we lived near the coast which we often sampled. His was grown in sandy soil and grown in full sun and thrived. Different conditions here so intersted to see how it fares.

Planted: 2010

Height 40 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Pollination: No

Guava - Strawberry ^10/10

Comments: -

Like the Yellow Cherry Guava, a very attractive shrub that fruits prolifically in summer. hen they are really ripe, these are my favourites of all the guavas I am growing.

Fruiting Months February and March

Planted: 2006

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

None needed

Organic Status:Organic

Guava - Strawberry

Guava - Strawberry ^10/10

Planted: 2008

Height 80 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Guava - Strawberry ^7/10