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09 Nov 2009Macadamia 'Grafted 849' Macadamia 'Grafted 849' and Backyard garden18°C / 64°F
Once this tree was planted it was watered with a weak soloution of seasol, and will be watered this way for the next couple of weeks to allow full establishment..
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09 Nov 2009Backhousia 'Myrtifolia' Backhousia Myrtifolia 'Grey Myrtle' and Backyard garden18°C / 64°F
Once this tree was planted it was watered with a weak soloution of seasol, and will be watered this way for the next couple of weeks to allow full establishment..
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08 Nov 2009Avocado 'Wurtz' Still No Fruit 3 Avocado 'Wurtz'24°C / 75°F
Once again the anticipation of flowers and fruit this year has eluded us once again..I must admit it did look ok for a while whilst those flowers burst open, however the excitement was short lived with all but a few flower stalks became bare sticks..There was a couple of flowers still attached, w...
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08 Nov 2009Mandarin 'Satsuma Seedless' 1 Mandarin 'Satsuma Seedless'24°C / 75°F
This tree still has not produced any flowers since it has been established in our garden but at least it has been able to produce a huge amount of leaves without the aggravation of the dreaded citrus leaf miner causing any further damage than what it recieved last year..Fingers crossed for this y...
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08 Nov 2009Lemon 'Meyer' 1 Lemon 'Meyer'21°C / 70°F
Before this tree had it’s last fruit harvested it was already in production of another main batch of flowers with a couple of fruit already started and were the size of a 20c piece..
This tree is amazing..Now with its main crop of flowers fertilised over spring the tree is literally covered...
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08 Nov 2009Lime 'Tahitian' 2 Lime 'Tahitian'21°C / 70°F
For the very first time since it’s been planted, this tree has developed heaps of flowers..Yippeee!!!
And now it has small fruit all over it the size of a pea and a little bit smaller..So with any luck we will be harvesting plenty of fruit from this tree in time to come..
All of the citru...
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08 Nov 2009Orange 'Washington Navel' 1 Orange 'Washington Navel'21°C / 70°F
This small tree has flowered during the month of august/september and now is developing fruit for the very first time..
They are only a half the size of a pea, however we are very excited about the prospects of getting some fruit out of it this year..
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07 Nov 2009Snow Pea 'Oregon Dwarf' Snow Pea 'Oregon Dwarf' HarvestingAt this stage the plants have grown to the top of their support and has been flowering and we have been harvesting plenty of pods.. Every couple of day’s they need to be harvested as they will get too large and go to seed.. Regular harvesting ensures more pod production.. So in essence wi...Cloudy 21°C / 70°F
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07 Nov 2009Celery 'Golden Self Branching' 1 Celery 'Golden Self Branching' FloweringRainy 21°C / 70°F
This planting is starting to develop flower stems with the entire plant is around 500mm high, and I am unsure as to whether or not it is as edible as it was a couple of weeks but there is only one way to find out and that’s by harvesting a little and give it a go..
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07 Nov 2009Cauliflower 'All Year Round' 1 Cauliflower 'All Year Round' HarvestingYesterday whilst walking through the garden i thought it was about time i harvested some of these little treasures.. We ended up getting 4 heads of a good size which were brought inside divided into florets and blanched.. The only thing is that there are only 3 plants left to produce more of this...Cloudy 21°C / 70°F

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