Fruits Tress In Detail


Fruit Doubles

Peach Bonanza (top) and Peach Rose Chiffon (bottom).

Multi budded fruit trees give a couple of fruit selections from the space of a single tree.


Peach



Fig Brunoro black –

 Dark purple to black skin with red flesh. Small to medium shaped fruit. No pollination required. Crops twice. First Crop Dec – Jan, Second crop April to May. 4 to  5 meters tall.

Fig

Nectarine “Garden delight”–

Dwarf Nectarine. Large, Freestone red blushed fruit, which is sweet, delicious and juicy. Beautiful pink blossoms cover the tree in spring. Self fertile.

Nectarine

Apricot Garden Annie –

 Dwarfing – Medium to Large Fruit with bright yellow skin and firm, juicy flesh. Grows to 2 to 3 meters. Self fertile.

Apricot

Lemon Meyer-

The ever popular lemon, with many  uses in home. Sweetly fragrant white flowers. Medium sized  juicy fruits, Plant in deeply orked, free draining moisture retentive soil. Water well when planting. Apply citrus fertilizer spring, summer and early autumn. Popular in containers on potio. 1.5m.

Lemon

Tangelo Dweet –

medium /large fruit, good flavour. Peels cleanly , very  juicy , consistant fruiter, moderate grower with good shape tree.



Tangelo



Apple Splender –

 Late season. Cross between red Dougherty and golden Delcious. Large , pinky red apples with crisp, breaking, white flash. Apple is sweet and with very good flavour

Apple

All the above plants were planted in July 2012

Cheers
Krishan

Fruits Tress Planted

Fruits Tress Planted

I have bought Peach, Apricot, Nectarine, Lemon, Fig, Tangelo and Apple trees. These are some of the many other fruits trees that grabbed my attention at the Plant Barn, I bought these trees from Tidal Road, In Mangere.

After buying these trees – I had to buy some big containers and compost and potting mix to aid in the planting. I spoke to a lot of friends and these are some of the advice I got.

Sue suggested that I buy dwarf trees and plant them in containers and its easy to move them around specially if you re-locate.

Bill suggested that Fig trees grow quite big – but by putting it in a container keeps it manageable, and fruits quite well.

Ioana wondered how will I water these plants and suggested about setting up a irrigation that would make it easier to maintain these plants.

I am on a mission to trial things out and let’s see how it goes.

Below is the picture of some of the trees. I will be posting more details about the fruits trees that I have planted this winter, information on the variety of the fruit and seasons it will fruit.



Fruit Trees in Containers



Cheers

Krishan

Gardening As a Hobby !!

Gardening As a Hobby !!

Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree. From childhood I always loved to see plants grow, it was like magical to see such things happen. As time passed by it was understood as hard work and determination to get the most out of your Gardening. People think if you plant things – they would like to get the outcome as soon as possible. Plant a rose to see rose’s blooming the next spring. Plant Coriander and expect to use it in your cooking’s in few months. If you plant a fruit tree – the question is when will this tree mature and start fruiting? This year I have taken a step forward to try out planting fruit trees and will update the blog step be step to see the progress of these trees in the years to come. Will also include other gardening tips and experience that I come across. Appreciate any comments or feedbacks on how to improve my gardening skills.

In 2012 – I have decided to explore growing fruit trees. My house is not in a big land and neither am I in a country side to have the advantage of big land area to try out growing these trees. Due to this – I have to try out dwarf trees, trees in pots and some in the ground. This is like a project and a learning curve to see what grows well in the different environments and locations. When buying fruits trees I had to keep in mind about pollination so that I do achieve some fruits at the end.

In my Next blog – I will be introducing the fruit trees that I have planted this winter !!

This is the picture of my compond.



My Residence at Mangere, Auckland, NZ- July 2012



Cheers

Krishan