Forum Thermomix
Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: ~[fruity]~ on October 20, 2012, 08:36:43 am
-
What would you MUST plant re fruit trees if you had the room?
Our orchard is expanding and would love some input.
We have apples / cherries / peach / nectarines / cherry plums / white and black mulberries / lemon / a sad apricot / an avocado / a blood plum ummmmmm ... a fejioa, I think that's it.
Almonds wont grow here, not sure re quince, only make a little bit of quince paste each year. My soils are a mix of good rich dark loam, and dry light sand.
-
If you can grow avocado then plant a mango tree - they require the same conditions. If you are planting grafted seedlings paint the leaves with any old white paint. This will help to protect the new growth from frost and sunburn. Hope this helps.
Moptop
-
Pears!!! :D
Where do rockmelons grow? I would want them too :-))
And I would want a banana tree, but they wouldn't grow down here :'(
-
Mangoes will not grow here....
neither will bananas. and blurghhhhhh to bananas
I keep thinkging I have a pear tree but don't see to get any fruit from it.... and then it turns into a plum tree, and then I go tree shopping and think I have a pear tree and............. :-: (seemed the best smilie for the case)
-
The only fruit tree we have is blueberry and it's going well . I have some herb trees and plants - a bay tree, rosemary and mint in the garden and basil and parsley on the kitchen windowsill.
-
Fig tree - without a question!
-
We used to have a fig tree.... until we chopped it down :-))
-
Figs DH and I are a bit nonplussed about them. Can't see the fuss about them at all.
Have a roaring rosemary busy, have some choc mint to plant out, and plans for a herb garden
-
I think lime trees are a must! One for fruit and a kaffir lime for the leaves :)
-
Lime or lemon tree, bay tree, lemongrass (not a fruit tree but grows so well in sandy Perth soil without much water). I'd love a mango but don't think they play in our climate.
-
I have a Mango tree in my backyard! I am in the northern suburbs of Perth and gets 100's & 100's of fruit each season. In Perth they ripen in March. I will see if I can take a photo of my tree and post it on here.
Moptop
-
Lucky you Moptop but I daresay you can't eat all that it produces. I live too far away to even be able to help you out I'm afraid, as much as I would like to ;D
-
How far can you throw, Moptop? I'm just over 400km south ;D ;D
-
Not sure where you are but what about oranges? Almost as versatile as lemons.
-
I'm 3,186km east of you Kimmy, you'd have to have a very good arm! ;D
-
l would keep the choc mint to a big pot otherwise, when it is let loose it will go wild and come up everywhere in your garden
( that is what happened to use )
mandarins trees are nice but like oranges need lots of water and l kept forget to use citrus fertilizer when l remember we get a beautiful crop
l like stone fruit as it cost so much to buy in summer and l like to bottle / freeze it so l can use it all year round
l also try and grow other fruit too which cost a lot of money to buy and is not so easy to buy
what about a loqcuet tree sorry spell check not working
-
For me would be lemons, limes and kaffir, cherry, nectarines, peaches yellow for both, mango and blood plums, perhaps a banana and not a fruit tree but vanilla bean plant...
Amy melons grow along the ground like pumpkins..
-
Amy melons grow along the ground like pumpkins..
Thanks for that Frozzie ;D
I was having a hard time picturing a watermelon tree, it just wasn't working in my brain... I think its lack of sleep lol :-))
-
Now, that would be something to see - you wouldn't want to walk beneath one. Your mind is busy on other things at the moment Amy but it's nice to see someone so young having a senior moment :D
-
Lol dont know why thy call them senior moments as they happenat all ages!!
-
They sure do Frozzie :-))
I have them with alarming regularity ;D ;D ;D
-
I have a fig, 2 granny smith's, apricot, mandarin and plumicot trees. I would love to have a lemonade lemon tree.
-
We are just finishing our backyard at the moment, adding fruit trees (already have a lovely veggie and strawberry patch) We have planted a Lemonade tree, Plum tree, Raspberry canes and have a kiwi fruit to put in aswell. We haven't bothered with a lemon as my parents live 5 minutes away and have a fabulous lemon tree. We also want to put a passionfruit in, I LOVE them, but they are soooooo expensive to buy here. If we had a warmer climate, I'd love to have sooo many more fruit trees, including a banana! Oh, we're at 42 degrees south :D
-
What is a lemonade tree Den and how does it differ from a normal lemon one?
Amy i can't throw that far but could use a pigeon.
-
I think a lemonade tree must have taps on the ends of the branches which you turn on and lemonade pours out :D
Amy i can't throw that far but could use a pigeon.
That would have to be a pigeon on steroids unless you're sending one at a time? ;D ;D ;D
-
Lemonade lemons are sweeter than normal lemons. You can eat them like an orange.
-
I have
1 macadamia tree
2 plum trees
2 apple trees
white mulberry
black mulberry
2 avacardo trees
2 Mango trees
1 bush lemon tree
1 lemonade tree
3 lots of banana trees
1 nectarine tree
Mum has passionfruit vines
kaffir limes
lemon tree
comquarts
:)
-
I have,
Loquats , Raspberry Canes, Blood orange (doesn't have much color), Limequat, cumquat , Myers Lemon, patio Lime, Titian Lime, and kaffira Lime, grapefruit , Imperial. Mandarine, an other different mandarine, and a Tangello, a Nashi, a William pear (if it doesn't produce a good fruit this year it is coming out),plum (only good for jam, small) Granny smith Apple and a snow apple, old apricot not much good, new peach but has curly leaf might have to go and two different grapes that the birds eat,
.and Yes it is a lot of work, this weekend I have done 8 trailer loads of cuttings to the tip, local council had a free green waste weekend.
-
Cumquats, Tahitian lime. west indian lime, keffir lime, Meyer lemon, black and white mulberry, banana, quince, pawpaw, avocado, a very young fig, loquat, feijoa, and a struggling-probably-never-fruit-again mango
Would love blueberries, raspberries but not successful in the past so don't want to spend more money on them atm. . .
-
I would love more than we have, but that isn't possible. I only have a lemon tree and heaps of herbs. I'd love cherry, all sorts of stone fruits, mango, fig, lime and passion fruit.
-
new peach but has curly leaf might have to go
You can treat curly leaf Brenda. It needs to be sprayed before the leaves emerge in spring.
-
Den I have tried to bet the curly leaf on other trees that have gone to god, I have never found a good cure, do you have a recommendation, I think I used a copper based spray.
-
I was told you paint the trees in mid winter(when it's in hibernation) with a sulphate compound that's blue. Can't remember which but Bunnings should have it.
If you're only putting in a couple of trees, I thik lemon & lime.. I have a Eureka lemon which is great but I love d the Meyer I had in my last place. Tahitian limes are great..hardy & tons of fruit.
I also have pear, peach, nectarine persimon & plum. Justput in an avocado & cherry, but have a constant battle with birds & wallabies. Managed to get some beautiful pears last year with protection bags from Green Harvest which I highly recommend! Unfortunatley the magpies figured out what was in the bags towards the end of the season but it was good for a while!
8)
-
LOL Amy, was thinking of bottles and cans hanging from branches. Pigeons on steroids, everything is bigger in Victoria!!!!
Cookie we have one fruit salad tree with three different grafts on it mandarin, orange and lime. Doesn't take up much room and they come in stone fruit varieties too.
-
I would love an apricot and mulberry tree. I'm so sad that my next door neighbour cut down the nectarine tree that used to hang over our fence, as I used to get heaps of fruit off it. The only consolation is that the lemon and lime trees I planted when we first moved in have really taken off as they are no longer in competition with the nectarine tree.
-
Den I have tried to bet the curly leaf on other trees that have gone to god, I have never found a good cure, do you have a recommendation, I think I used a copper based spray.
The copper sulfate is all I've ever used Brenda. YOu do have to get the tree when it has budded but the leaves have not yet come out.
-
LOL Amy, was thinking of bottles and cans hanging from branches. Pigeons on steroids, everything is bigger in Victoria!!!!
So I've heard! ;D I think you must be trying to make up for being a little state ;)
-
I have lemon, cherry, plum, rosemary and blueberry. I want to get more blueberry bushes soon, then would LOVE a peach/nectarine tree (but not suer if they would grow well here in Tas or not. ??? )
-
Thanks Den, I'll try and catch it at the right time next year.