Saturday, July 24, 2010

orchard update

Cleared (mowed) orchard.
Spread sulphate of potash, fertiliser pellets, nutritech gold ( trace elements) around each fruit tree.
Mulched with hay (the round bales we bought during the week).

Ate some cumquat off the tree -they have become really sweet again after being quite sour last year -probably due to more diligent fertilising. Picked 1 papaya for further ripening inside to beat the possums/fruit bats.
Almost ready - tamarillos and a bunch of bananas.
Collected about 8 chokos from vine as well -such a prolific plant.

Tropical peach and nectarine in blossom with lots of bees around them. The peach even has some small fruit already.

Tom

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