My Edible Fruit Trees: Strawberry Trees

Guava - Strawberry (Cutting) ^10/10

Comments: - Compact, hardy as hell, delicious.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn and Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Organic Status:Organic

Strawberry Tree ^8/10

Comments: - Highly ornamental, fruits have pleasant grittyness with classic mango flavour, what a surprise!

Height 1.6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn and Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Guava - Strawberry

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 - Lowanna (Cutting) ^10/10

Comments: - We adore our Lowanna Strawberries. Big, bright, sweet, juicy, bountiful. Amazing. Highly recomend!

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 4

Fruit Harvest: 1 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic lifter

Guava - Strawberry

Guava - Strawberry

Strawberry - Sugarbaby

Strawberry - Redlands Joy

Strawberry - Lowanna

Guava - Strawberry

Planted: 2021

Height 40 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Guava - Strawberry (Grafted) ^8/10

Planted: 2019

Pollination: No

Guava - Strawberry (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: - Grows well with little attention, sweet tart taste, eat straight off the tree. Antioxidant level is high. Only watered in worst heat of summer

Fruiting Months January, February, March, November, December

Planted: 2019

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 10% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: handful of dynamic lifter or citrus food, plus magnesium sulphate now and then. also zinc manganese as my soils are deficient

Pest Control: occasionally remove a leaf with miner or caterpillar, maybe white oil if scale, no schedule

Organic Status:Organic

Mango Strawberry

Strawberry - Bravo ^10/10

Planted: 2020

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Guava - Strawberry

Planted: 2019

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Guava - Strawberry (Seedling)

Comments: - Plant arrived in May 2020 in great condition with soil still damp. Will plant this into a pot after 1-2 weeks outside and provide updates. 

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

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

Strawberry Guava

Guava - Strawberry

Strawberry bunnngs varieties

Guava - Strawberry (Seedling) ^7/10

Comments: - Some selections seem to be way too fruitful and set so much fruit that they will literally kill themselves. So fiddly to thin them. The Yellow variety seems to be mroe prone to this? I prefer the red one in our cooler climate, but prefered the yellow in our hotter climate up north. 

Planted: 2012

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Slow release organic chook manure pellets

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 .

Strawberry - Lowanna

Strawberry - Maroochy Flame (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: - Very sweet variety grows all year around...

Planted: 2018

Height 0.05 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 4

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Organic Status:Organic

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

Strawberry - Redlands Joy (Seedling) ^5/10

Comments: -

Started with five. Some went into pots, some into the ground. Two in the ground were absolutely decimated by Morning Glory, one in the pots died for unknown reasons. One is going strong in part shade in my front yard and still flowering and producing fruit in the middle of June! One is in a pot and has only ever had one short flowering season. 

Delicious fruit, though. Needs quite a bit of feeding and watering to coax out a good crop in our hot Brisbane weather, though. I'm not going to rip them out, but I have more productive plants in my yard than that.

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Pollination: No