I picked my feijoa crop today. Not sure how I'm going to manage to store all this....
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Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 May 15, 2011 10:45 am Re: My huge feijoa harvest 3May 15, 2011 7:28 pm Do you have a fruit bowl big enough? Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: My huge feijoa harvest 7May 16, 2011 7:08 am ^ Very true, Fu! The trees have only been in for a year, so I wasn't expecting anything more. Let's hope there's a bigger crop next year. Maybe even three! Re: My huge feijoa harvest 8May 16, 2011 11:38 am Hi Kek. A quick question about your feijoas if I may. I read in another post that you are going for a bare trunk look. Does that mean you have been underpruning them? We have just planted one and I would ideally like it to be more tree than shrub. I'm keen to take the pruning shears to it now but hubby is nervous and wants me to leave it until next year. Cheers Re: My huge feijoa harvest 9May 16, 2011 6:06 pm kay-you Hi Kek. A quick question about your feijoas if I may. I read in another post that you are going for a bare trunk look. Does that mean you have been underpruning them? We have just planted one and I would ideally like it to be more tree than shrub. I'm keen to take the pruning shears to it now but hubby is nervous and wants me to leave it until next year. Cheers Obviously i'm not Kek, but Fu had mentioned before that you could start pruning your shrub/ hedge/ tree at an very early stage-- he suggested trimming about 1/3 before you started planting that ( in case you put it in the ground). Doing that at an early stage will prevent leaving " scars" at the truck Take out your shear and do the pruning tomorrow, you will find and addicted to pruning! Re: My huge feijoa harvest 10May 16, 2011 6:11 pm kek, You know, I re-load your pic to make sure it's the pic you mentioned for your title ! My Feijoa didn't even have one fruit yet, so comparatively you have far more than ! Mine ( only 1) now looks like a shrub, still less than 1 M, but it did have far much branches than before. Re: My huge feijoa harvest 12May 16, 2011 6:45 pm Nott kay-you Hi Kek. A quick question about your feijoas if I may. I read in another post that you are going for a bare trunk look. Does that mean you have been underpruning them? We have just planted one and I would ideally like it to be more tree than shrub. I'm keen to take the pruning shears to it now but hubby is nervous and wants me to leave it until next year. Cheers Obviously i'm not Kek, but Fu had mentioned before that you could start pruning your shrub/ hedge/ tree at an very early stage-- he suggested trimming about 1/3 before you started planting that ( in case you put it in the ground). Doing that at an early stage will prevent leaving " scars" at the truck Take out your shear and do the pruning tomorrow, you will find and addicted to pruning! Nott's right - it's best to start shaping your plants at an early stage. I hacked mine quite severely when I planted them, partly to clean up the trunks, but also to encourage bushier growth at the tops. I reckon I cut the foliage back by about two-thirds (although not off the total height of the plants). I have some photos somewhere.... Re: My huge feijoa harvest 13May 16, 2011 7:18 pm Photos would be awesome. We didn't have much choice in plants here so, consequently, the feijoa has a few more branches/stems than I would like. From what I have read I can still have several (five or so) stems coming from ground level, then remove the foliage from the bottom two thirds and keep this up til it gets tall enough. Problem is, the lady at the plant store said to prune after it fruits and now my hubby wants me to wait til next year I need to convince him otherwise. Plant is about 1 m high with around five good thick stems and three or four spindly ones. Re: My huge feijoa harvest 16May 17, 2011 12:10 am Best thing to do is to leave them as a shrub till they mature. Other wise they may well have a weakened stem and snap off in years come when there is a good blow. By having a bushy base, they will develop well and strong. Then in a few years you can under prune them and expose the trunks and they will be all the better for it. When Kek bought hers they were already talk and weak due to the growing style of the nursery. Re: My huge feijoa harvest 17May 17, 2011 1:00 am Here is an example of what I am talking about, featuring one of my favs as a hedge, Melaleuca nesophila. Photo courtesy of the WaterCorp http://www.watercorporation.com.au/W/wa ... -2997-2837 and John Colwill. http://www.plantsman.com.au These have had that done to them. You can simply do the same but flatter. Re: My huge feijoa harvest 20May 19, 2011 9:20 pm I was dared by my guys at work to eat one of these a few weeks ago at a job, I'm not much of a fruit eater (or anything really healthy for that matter), but these things aint too bad! A little bit... figgy? Planned Landscape Constructions http://www.plannedlandscape.com.au Find us on facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= ... 9907611509 |