It's the silly season, the stores are full of Christmas cheer, and there are bright red cherries on every cake. No fruit cake is finished without the cherry on top, right? So how do we get our cherry fix here in warm temperate NSW?
Growing Tropical Cherries when you're in a warmer climate.
An Acerola Cherry fruit tree has beautifully open, dichotomous branching pattern lends itself well to holiday decorations, not that it needs it while it's shiny baubles ripen at the perfect time of year. Approximately the size of a cherry, the fruit has a single seed and tastes remarkably similar to their cold climate relatives.
Beginners guide to multi grafting fruit trees in 10 steps. Grafting can be done by anyone who wants to have a go.
Step 1 Cut out the dead wood 00:18
Step 2 Locate the rootstock 00:58
Step 3: Remove thorns 01:43
Step 4 Wrap the scion in tape 02:01
Step 5 Perform a top Graft 02:32
Step 6: Cut scion into 4cm spear 03:01
Step 7 Cut rootstock to match scion 03:26
Step 8 Fit scion into rootstock 03:46
Step 9 Tape Together 03:50
Step 10 Remove the tape 05:19
We have grown side by side 3 different Kumquat fruit trees. Dwarf Kumquts, Semi Dwarf Kumquats and Regular Kumquat Fruit Trees.
We show you the differences between each one and how to get the most out of them by giving them the fertiliser they need to grow. We also explore their uses.
Transcript
now everybody loves growing citrus trees
they're not only productive but they're
also beautiful ornamental plants to grow
as a potted ornamental plant this is the
Australian Calamondin and in the
Philippines it's also known as the
calamansi and it's a really popular
fruit to use in marinades and dressings
so this is a fantastic little juicy
fruit and you can squeeze all that
lovely acidic juice out it's used in all
sorts of Asian cooking and it's also
fantastic if you like making marmalade
so this is the Calamondin grow it
because it looks beautiful and grow it
to use these beautiful tasty fruit so
when you're choosing your Kalamunda nor
your kumquat to grow in your garden
knowing which is the best one for you
can depend on what your space is like so
here I have a dwarf Calamondin and you
can see that it's a really small and
compact plant and it's also perfect for
growing in pots so if you want a lovely
potted specimen or a small compact tree
choose a dwarf tree and that way you can
fit it into small spaces and if you want
something a little bit larger something
grafted onto a semi dwarfing rootstocks
like trifoliatia it's going to give
you a slightly larger tree so this is a
Meiwa and in the background there I
have a Nagami so these are different
types of kumquats and there are
different root stocks that you can
select them on so choose a dwarf for
small spaces and pots and go for your
regular root stock if you want something
a little bit larger
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Here's a beautiful little Ozzie Native
for anyone who likes a little
bit of colour in your garden.
and lovese growing Australian plants.
This is the Bush Pearl
Kangaroo Paw
And like all the kangaroo paws.
It's just a stunning edging plant
to have in your garden.I've just
got it popped in the corner of this
Herb garden and it just brings
a little bit of joy to everybody who
sees it during the day it's
absolutely stunning
To grow this all you need to do
is cut off the spent flowers
and you can actually lift and
and divide it so you can see
all these little plantlets that are
growing and if you want to
you can lift your plant when it
finishes flowering, divide these
into individual plants and you'll
end up with having 10
of these beautiful things in
your garden
Transcript
I'm going to show you a beautiful citrus
here today this is called a Honneffs
Surprise looks like a grapefruit it
smells like a grapefruit but it's
actually a hybrid cross so it's a cross
between a grapefruit and an orange and
what that does is it gives the fruit
this beautiful blush so it's a little
bit more orange in color and it's also a
little bit more sweet so if you love
grapefruit you're going to love the Honneffs
Surprise. So like growing all citrus
trees you're going to need a full Sun
position and you're going to need good
drainage so they like plenty of
moisture they like really
well-drained soil and they're heavy
feeders so you're going to need to give
your tree some well balanced nutrition
about three or four times a year so lots
of compost lots of mulch and a balanced
NPK fertiliser and then in the winter
months when you most need your vitamin C
you're going to be picking these big
juicy beautiful fruits and eating them
for breakfast every day
Unlike normal Kumquats the Variegated Kumquat Fruit Tree has these green and yellow stripes. This plant is really going to stand out in your backyard. Often people use them as a feature plant. They are very popular grown in pots.
Passionfruit Vines are fast and "needy". To get them off to a great start you need to know these tips about.
1. Trellis and location.
2. Grafted Varieties which one to choose.
3. Heavy Feeders Location and Planting
4. Pruning - Keeping your vine fresh and "walking the line"
5. Frost Protection - We show you how to protect your vine for those very cold Winter mornings.
Tango for Mangoes: ".. there's also a good selection of smaller varieties available and, with pruning, you can even accomodate some of the larger mangoes in an average-sized backyard."
In the latest Spring issue of ABC Gardening Australia Magazine with Kath from Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery
🇦🇺If you're Australian, 1 in 7 of us 50+ will have our central eye sight worsen. Called Macular Degeneration.
🍊🍊 Oranges 🍊🍊
"So we know it's not to do with the Vitamin C in oranges. We can speculate it's likely to be the flavonoids or it's something else in oranges." says lead researcher Bamini Gopinath.
Early stages but moral of this story could be it's not the tablets, it's not the powders it's eating the entire fruit.
It's Dwarf, It's different, It's GMO free (Selection created by hard work), It's taste is like a granny smith even though the skin and flesh is red. It's the new Red Love Apple Fruit Tree.
Often backyard growers don't get an opportunity to grow new exciting varieties like this Red Love Apple. You might remember a certain "un-named plum" everyone wanted but was not available to backyard growers. In a good news story the team at Redlove Apple Australia have made it so Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery can deliver this apple tree bare root ( dormant stage with no leaves ) to your door and you can be part of the first people growing this very exciting new variety.
Climate: You do need some chill hours to produce apples so suitable climates are cool and warm temperate climates.
Did you know you can grow all 3 apple varieties on 1 tree. It is called a 3 way because 3 apple varieties are grafted onto the same rootstock also referred to as a multi graft. There are also 2 way but so far we haven't come across 4 ways perhaps this is something you can add at home when you reach Advanced level. Pollination between varieties is all taken care of too.
Newbies often ask well can I grow a apple and an orange on the same tree. The answer is No. The rootstock is not compatible. You can look for "Way" in our search box to bring up nectarine and pear "3 way" and "2 ways" that come as bare rooted fruit trees.
Climate. These types of apples need high chill so you will need to be in a temperate to warm temperate climate for them to produce apples. Otherwise there are subtropical apple trees for those of us living in warmer climates like tropical anna or dwarf dorsette.
Pics above Cupuassu, Related to cacao, the cupuassu is popular in its native Brazil, but little know elsewhere. Unlike cacao, the pulp of the large-fruited cupuassu is used rather than the seeds. Unique flavour with hint of Pineapple
Tatura Trellis - cyclone proof trees, framework for netting and also training limbs to be more fruitful
Cacao fruit - flesh around beans (that are used to make chocolate) taste like mangosteen and Soursop.
Canistel dip - great way to use this fruit. Just mix with Lime and Chili. So tasty!!
One of Peters Crisp Orange Jackfruit selections ‘Berry’ superb flavour.
Todays visit to Peter and Alison Salleras Fruit Forest Farm was awesome. Their passion in trialing and growing commercially a large range of exotic tropical fruits was so inspiring. After experiencing the full fury of Category 5 Cyclone Yasi in 2011 Peter and Allison were not deterred but actually inspired to future proof their orchard by establishing all new planting’s using Tatura trellessing. We were at the tail end of the wet season fruiting, but still managed to taste amazing Soursops, Durian, Jackfruit, Rollinia, Mangosteen, Breadfruit, Cacao, Black Sapote, Breadnut, Cupuassu, Pomelo and Canistel. It was great to finally meet the Salleras’ that I have heard so much about. They are so generous with their knowledge and their lifetime dedication to trialing and implementing new ways of growing Tropical fruits is so inspiring. If you are ever visiting North Qld you have to book into one of their Saturday afternoon Farm Tours.
https://www.fruitforestfarm.com.au
There are Supermarket Oranges and then there are backyard grown, big cropping, sweet and juicy, Seedless, Full Tasting, Fresh room filling aroma, Magical Texture and "to live for" Oranges that will give you enough fruit to share with friends and family. The grafted Dwarf Navelina Orange tree is exactly this. Show us a backyard or a sunny patio and Daleys will say you need a Dwarf Navelina Orange tree growing right there.
We are really enjoying these fabulous carambolas - Daleys Sweet Gold Carambola Star Fruit Tree, it is one of our home grown selections that produces an abundant crop of sweet, juicy, medium sized fruit. Best eaten fresh, straight off the tree.
We'd love it if you would like to share with us whatever it is you are enjoying out of your home orchard.
Example: How to fill in the form to be notified about WA dispatch dates
Yes we send fruit trees and many non-fruiting plants to WA about 3-5 times per year. If you are part of our email list with a WA postcode (must be: 6000-6999 ) then we will send you an email and SMS to say that we will be taking orders for 2 weeks to WA. You can then look at our list of plants that we have approved to be sent to WA.
2. How does the 2 week Ordering Window Work?
We notify you by Email/SMS ( See Number 1 above to join )
Weeks 1-2 You have 2 weeks to place an order ( Ordering Window)
Week 3: We send a list of the plants you ordered to the DPI to confirm they are ok.
Week 4: We organise for a DPI officer to visit our nursery and check your plants.
Week 5: Your order will arrive at your home in Western Australia (WA).
3. What Date is your next WA 2 week ordering window?
We do not give out exact dates until we have been in communication with the DPI official to organise a date that suits both them and us and also we look at the long range weather forecast. Once this date is set we will then send out emails to everyone on our WA list ( explained in Number 1 above) You may also like to look back through our history of WA dispatch dates.
4. Can I Pre Purchase or Reserve Plants before the WA 2 week ordering window?
No, We can only send you plants that are in stock and the correct height and root growth to be sent to WA. This list will be shown to those on our WA list ( explained in Number 1 above)
6. What plants can you send to WA? Method 1:
In stock plants that can be sent to WA can be viewed as one long list here: https://www.daleysfruit.com.au/Plant-List.php?State=WA
However please note that this list is always changing and only plants that are in stock during our WA 2 week dispatch window will be able to be sent to WA. Method 2:
Using the search feature find the plant that you will be interested in having sent to WA. The search feature is up the top of every single page eg our home page https://www.daleysfruit.com.au when you find the plant you were after click to view the full details of this plant. Look under Plant Specifications and you will be shown if there are any "Quarantine restrictions into this area" It will say WA if it can not be sent to WA.
See what Bare Root Fruit Trees look like, how they are transported and the specific points on these "Sticks" that you need to understand. A whole orchard can be created in 1 compact order.
Detailed/Pictured List of Bare Root Plants that will be sent in June/July
In the video we show you how they save space making them perfect for mail order and offer 50% off freight compared to buying these plants as potted plants outside of Winter.
5 Benefits of Grafted Loquats over Seedling Loquats
1) Known Flavour: Sweet and consistent texture. Seedlings can be sour (Luck of the draw)
2) Time to Fruit: Grafted plants will flower & fruit right away but best to remove flowers & fruit in the first few years to establish.
3) Known Fruit Size: Very rarely will a seedling loquat produce fruit of the size of Nagasakiwase or Bessell brown grafted variety.
4) Flesh to seed ratio - Loquats can have multiple seeds in the one fruit but grafted varieties have less seed for the amount of fruit.
5) Big Crop of Fruit: Known for producing a bumper crop.
My Favourite thing about Loquats:
We all get the bug to garden just as Spring starts. Your grafted Loquat is producing fruit you can eat right off the tree while most of your other trees are just starting to think about their flowers. Inspiration you can taste.
Who am I ? ..... I am not a pest, I don’t always look like this, I am like the ugly duckling 🐥, there is only certain vines I like, if you plant them I will come. Who am I?
Richmond Birdwing Vine:
Answer from last post: I am the caterpillar of the Richmond Birdwing butterfly. I only like the Richmond birdwing vine and I am one of your largest butterflies in Australia my wingspan can be 16cm. Grow my vines and I will come.
Who am I ? ..... I am not a pest, I don’t always look like this, I am like the ugly duckling 🐥, there is only certain vines I like, if you plant them I will come. Who am I?
Video Transcript
We're often asked about our potting mix
we make our premium potting mix here at
Daley's nursery
Keep in mind that we do make
different mixes for specific plants so
I'm just going to show you a general
potting mix that you can also make in
your garden to pot up your beautiful
fruit trees and any other plants that
you're growing in containers so firstly
we start with basic ingredients and we
buy ours in bulk of course so this is
Coir and you can buy it in blocks like
this it's dried out it's pressed
together and it's quite compact so what
you need to do when you get your block
of Coir is to wet it down so you can pop
this in a wheelbarrow put in about ten
litres of water twenty litres of water
and it expands so you can see how much
it expands here so this is one block
once it's expanded so we actually put a
little sprinkler over lots of blocks of
koi and we wet them all down together so
we're ready to mix our potting mix now
as soon as you move this block it's
going to break up so I've got one here
that we've just moved over and you can
see it just becomes like a powder so
this is one of the basic ingredients of
our potting mix now next to us here
we've got composted pine bark and this
is just medium pines of composted pine
bark and it's the other main fundamental
ingredient in our potting mix and we're
going to actually mix these together so
what we do here at the nursery is we mix
about one-third of Coir to two-thirds of
pine bark we use a tractor and a scoop
and we actually put them in a big old
cement mixer so they get fed into this
chute we mix it all up with fertiliser
so we add slow-release fertiliser gypsum
we add Nutrimin and then we feed it up
this chute into our potting machine once
it's all really well mixed and then the
potting machine feeds the Potters to pot
up the plants so I'll show you that next
so this fabulous machine is our potting
machine and this is where we pot up the
majority of our plants here at Daley's
nursery
so it's a two-person operation and we'll
show you how it works but basically when
you turn it on it feeds out the potting
mix and people pot up here it's a really
fast and efficient way of potting up
plants
so if you want to make your own potting
mix at home you're going to need a
wheelbarrow some basic ingredients some
coir some pine bark if you can get it or
you might want to just use a bag of
premium grade potting mix so that's
going to be similar and it's already
going to have the fertilizer if you're
using plain pine bark you're going to
need some slow-release fertiliser so
we've got a couple of cups of Osmocote
and Nutricote coat these are slow-release
and they're going to last about eight to
twelve months so mix it all up in your
wheelbarrow
sprinkling my slow-release fertiliser so
I've got about two cups
and then mix it all through.
so you can see that the
fertiliser is sort of nicely spread
through the mix you can see the Coir is
pretty much broken up and I've got a
really beautiful mix of ingredients so
this is excellent we're going to use
this to pot up some of our beautiful
Our Pearl Dragon Fruit this morning. We find they are better than the yellow varieties in full sun positions. Yellow skinned varieties can get sunburnt in harsh sun like we got over the weekend. Growing them over an old stump like we have done here is ideal. Looks very rustic while staying small and means that they quickly start drooping down telling your plant it is time to flower and fruit rather than exploring new heights by climbing up a tall tree.
Would you like to do an Internship with Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery, with the possibility of long term employment and eventual managing role.
The 3 Daley Brothers that established the nursery nearly 40 years ago are looking at succession planning in the next 10 years. Hence we have an opportunity to train up the right persons to take over management roles and continue to build on what we have achieved at Daleys.
If interested in this opportunity to work in a very positive workplace and live in the best address in Australia (well we think so), then please apply for this position. The Internship would be for 12mths working full time at the Nursery Award.
Honest with an enthusiastic work ethic, that is motivated and genuinely interested in establishing a long term career.
Ability to contribute to a positive team environment
Excellent communication skills.
Strong organisational skills
Ability to supervise and motivate employees.
Physically fit and have the capacity for physical outdoor work. Work would include all aspects of the Nursery from Propagation, Potting, Dispatch, Fruit tree maintenance, Irrigation management., Machinery Maintenance, Liaison with Suppliers and customers, Pest and weed Control,
A passion to read, learn and research. With over 500 different varieties we sell, so very important for the right applicant to want to educate themselves.
Ability to work full time (38hrs per week)
You may not have all these skills now, but if you genuinely think you have the ability to develop these skills then please apply. After the 12mth Internship we will look at the opportunity to move into a full time position with Daleys. We have a profit sharing incentive with all permanent staff after they have worked with us for 12mths. If you feel this Internship is right for you, please send in your Resume and a cover letter why you think you would be right for this position. info@daleysfruit.com.au
