Food Gardening

[Ducatiboy stu]

Take it to Daleys nursery, they can tell you.

http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/map.htm

 

[Bribie G]

Aha, no that's the plant also known as the "Swiss Cheese Plant" and they grow like a palm.
I await impatiently.

 

[Bribie G]

Take it to Daleys nursery, they can tell you.

http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/map.htm

Good idea, they'll know if it's going to be edible or not.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Read of a good tip yesterday, in another thread we were discussing snails and copper tape, well apparently they will not go over Velcro tape either.

 

[Camo6]

Hooks or loops?

 

[Airgead]

Read of a good tip yesterday, in another thread we were discussing snails and copper tape, well apparently they will not go over Velcro tape either.

That copper tape is useless. Either that or I have really tough snails. The sort that enjoy testing 9v batteries on their tongues.

Velcro sounds interesting though....

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Hooks or loops?

That wasn't elaborated, it was black so presume it was the hook.

 

[niftinev]

I name thee green fingers. I just love food production.

Hey, can anyone I.D. my mystery tree?
I've recently moved into a place in Kyogle (Sub Tropical Northern NSW) and there are two absolutely jaw dropping massive trees, the same size, with huge canopies, that I assumed were both mangoes. One of them certainly is, and is now sporting quite a few tiny mangoes. The other has heaps of what look like mangoes from a distance, but up close they are obviously not mangoes.

The mango has the typical rough brown bark, the other massive tree has a smooth silvery bark and the fruits look like this: they are currently the size of a very small olive.
Obviously my main concern is whether they are edible or not. Not to mention what da fukathey.

mango tree not fruit.jpg

Mango tree

mango tree.jpg

Not Mango tree

mango tree not.jpg

Look like lychees, gold mine if they are, absolutely ******* delicious

just let me know when they turn red and will come and pick (err eat) for you

 

[spog]

Gave my veggie patches a good watering yesterday arvo as its going to hit 39 degrees ,I'm expecting to lose a few seedlings.

 

[Kingy]

My little garden is crankin. Fresh beans and spinach with and egg on toast for breaky bloody beautiful.

 

[shaunous]

That looks terrible Kingy.

Meat person right here.

If someone served me that I'd back hand them.



Well done with the garden though.

 

[Spohaw]

^^^ Kind of funny

I'd eat it ... Without any back handing or whinging

 

[LiquidGold]

Egg is lacking Tabasco

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

and bacon

 

[shaunous]

^^^ Correct

 

[spog]

That looks terrible Kingy.

Meat person right here.

If someone served me that I'd back hand them.



Well done with the garden though.

Thanks for the chuckle.

 

[WarmerBeer]

My (dwarf) apricot has started developing a brown marking on the skins.

It's a second year plant, but we didn't get any fruit on it last year, as it was still a baby.

Any ideas what it is, and what I should treat it with?

 

[wide eyed and legless]

You can't treat it, its scab a fungal disease, usually have to pull them out, Google it and see if there is a prevention or pull it out if you have other trees it could spread to.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

It can be treated with a copper fungicide spray (not now when leaves have fallen) here is a link to Peter Cundall's Bordeaux mixture.
http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s1631445.htm

 

[WarmerBeer]

Awesome, thanks for that. Read the previous post, was definitely not looking forward to having to pull it out.

Will see how it goes this season, and treat with the spray once winter hits.

 

[Bribie G]

Look like lychees, gold mine if they are, absolutely ******* delicious

just let me know when they turn red and will come and pick (err eat) for you

Yes, Lychees.. :icon_drool2: :icon_drool2: they are fattening up really quickly now and on dissecting a couple they are indeed, just starting to form the "rubbery" fruit layer.

I never realised they grew that big, every Lychee tree I have ever seen was a tame looking little thing in rows in a plantation.
I'll need to bird net the bottom branches .

What part of Northern Rivers? There must be a tonne of fruit if it all matures.
The photo shows about a quarter of the tree. Before fruit. Now they are hanging in little bunches.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

You will have to put a sign up Bribie, "No Scrumping"

 

[niftinev]

Yes, Lychees.. :icon_drool2: :icon_drool2: they are fattening up really quickly now and on dissecting a couple they are indeed, just starting to form the "rubbery" fruit layer.

I never realised they grew that big, every Lychee tree I have ever seen was a tame looking little thing in rows in a plantation.
I'll need to bird net the bottom branches .

What part of Northern Rivers? There must be a tonne of fruit if it all matures.
The photo shows about a quarter of the tree. Before fruit. Now they are hanging in little bunches.

lychee tree.jpg

that tree is huge never seen a lychee tree that big, you will get shitloads

Potty mate by the sea ( hop, skip and a jump), tough life but someones gotta do it

 

[niftinev]

You will have to put a sign up Bribie, "No Scrumping"

won't be scrumping just gunna remove so they don't make a mess as Bribie won't like them

nothing better than fresh picked off the tree

 

[Bribie G]

Right, I went through Pottsville a few weeks ago by mistake. Well manicured looking place.

 

[niftinev]

nice quiet place to live, short stroll to the beach and far enough away from all the ********

effin glad i got to retire early even though it was forced

 

[Bribie G]

Wow these bastards don't muck about do they

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

I will come for a drive for a bucket of lychee's

 

[Lincoln2]

I'll be over before long with some agile little 11 year old lads who like to climb trees.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

I to have 10 & 9 yr old lads that like climbing trees