Month: June 2018
Feijoas FAQ
Feijoas (Acca sellowiana) are probably the most discussed crop here at George Street Orchard. People are often surprised that they can grow this far south.
They are native to South America and range in the wild from latitude 26° – 35°. In southern Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay and northern Argentina they are common to elevations 400 – 1400 m, therefore hill country not as hot as those latitudes might suggest.
GSO on film
Autumn 2018
Zingiber mioga (Japanese ginger) flowers ready to be pickled with rice wine vinegar and sugar
‘Niagara’ grapes
‘Egremont Russet’ apple
Winter Nellis pears
‘Disovery’ apple
Kiwifruit almost ready!
‘Blackboy’ peaches
‘Brown Turkey’ fig, ‘Meyer’ lemon
‘Liberty’ apple
Autumn raspberries and tomatoes
‘Orleans Reinette’ apple
‘Blackboy’ peach slurry
Parsley and rengarenga amongst gooseberries, plums and blackberries
‘Meiwa’ Kumquat – newly planted where a feijoa just came out. Kiwifruit vine overhead on a north facing wall
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