25% OFF FREIGHT March and April 2012

Most people only think about planting Fruit Trees in Spring BUT this is when as a nursery we get the seeds, cuttings and grafts to develop. Some of these grow, some die.

Now that it is Autumn all the ones that are successful are now ready to sell and get the plants Mail Ordered to you door.

This is why we are offering

25% OFF FREIGHT BASKET CODE: FREIGHT25OFF

* Excludes Wholesale Orders
* MARCH AND APRIL 2012

Nut Varieties Introduced and Australian Natives - Town And Country Magazine

Town And Country Magazine

We are very excited because our staff member Kath got one of her articles on nuts published in the Town and Country Magazine. It is a great magazing for Australians so to read her article and others make sure you pick it up at your local newsagents.

Reduction in Packing Fee

When mail ordering only one or two fruit trees where the plant costs are under $100 we have had a Packing fee of $6.50. Orders over $100 we offered this FREE.
The Good News: Due to receiving more orders from you our lovely customers and developing quicker ways to get our fruit trees to your door we have now changed this to $4.50 for orders under $50. (Learn More)

$100 Fruit Tree Gift Voucher for $90 Only in December

$100 Fruit Tree Gift Voucher for $90

$50 Fruit Tree Gift Voucher for $45

Benefits:
- Mail Order Fruit Trees within Australia ( Only excludes Tas and NT)
- Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery have been in business for over 30 years.
- Can be used instore
- Does not need to be used in one purchase.
- Sent By Email Instantly so there is no waiting on the mail man.
- Can be printed out or forwarded onto your recipient.

Terms:
- Delievery by Email Only or you can pay full price and have us print it out and send the Fruit Tree Gift Voucher to you:
- Must be used 1 Year from purchase date. ( We do allow reasonable leniency )
- They are treated like Cash and if lost they are lost for good.

Tea Production a Home

HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN TEA AT HOME

For personal use you will need about 4 bushes for the average family of tea drinkers. The bushes need to be planted in a well-drained area. Most soil types will do though they prefer slightly acidic soil. They will tolerate full sun of partial shade, not full shade. Tea likes plenty of water, but will not tolerate standing in water. Fertilize with a hight nitrogen fertiliser, in October and February.

Prune your bushes so that they spread out to form a flattop hedge. Prune in February for the first 3 years then every year in July if in a no frost area, or when the danger of frost has passed if you are in a frost prone area. Prune to about 200mm the first year, 300mm in the second year, 400mm in the third year, when you should be able to get your first crop. Pluck the first two or three leaves and the bud every time they are 5-8cm above the pruning mark at first then use the plucking mark as a guide. You should let your bushes gain height during the plucking season so that they reach a comfortable working height by the end of the season, around early July in the Northern New South Wales and South East Queensland area.

When your bushes reach maturity, in 5-6 years prune out the ‘crows feet’ every year. Then every 5 years give them a deep prune down to 30-40 cm from the ground. Make clean cuts with your pruning.

PLUCKING

You should be able to pluck your 2-3 leaves and bud by about October and then every 2-3 weeks decreasing to about every week in December – January – February – March – April, then extending to 2-3 weeks by June – July. When plucking pull off and discard any old dark green leaf that protrude above your plucking table. You only need the fresh light green new growth to make tea.

PROCESSING

Having plucked your 2-3 leaves and bud, you are now ready to make tea. When your bushes are mature you should get about 1 kilo or more from your four bushes. Thinly spread your leaf out on a withering table which you can make by stretching a piece of Hessian or such over a frame about 1m square or anything similar just so that air can circulate all around the individual leaves. You will need to leave this to wither for about 17 hours in the shade or indoors.

Your tea is withered when you squeeze a hand full and it stays in a ball. Though, this physical wither is not as important as the chemical wither, which must have about 17 hours to take place. Next, feed your tea through a meat mincer, a food processor is not satisfactory for this. Use a fine screen in the end of your mincer, and feed the tea through twice. The tea leaves need to be broken up under pressure in order to rupture the leaf cells. That is why a mincer is best. Alternatively you could chop it with a knife on a chopping board. Then roll it with a heavy wooden roller.
From here spread your tea on a tray up to 25mm thick and leave for about an hour, when it should be turned and left for another hour. This process is called fermentation. After fermentation you are ready for drying. This is the hardest part for the home tea maker to do.

I use an old fan heater mounted so that the hot air comes out upwards. You must be sure not to cover the air intake when you make a mounting frame, over the outlet on the fan heater and about 5 cm away, on the same frame I have a piece of fine .75mm stainless steel mesh which I bought from an engineering supply store. Place your tea on the mesh when it is hot, turning the tea occasionally until it is very dry 3% moisture. Feel some bought tea to get an idea of what to aim for. It should take about 20 minutes to dry 200 grams of tea, which is what you will end up with from 1 kg of green leaf. If you dry it too quickly you will form a crust on the leaf known as case hardening, which will not allow a proper infusion to take place and thus have a very weak brew. If you are too slow with your drying you will stew your tea and it will taste just like that, stewed.

Whatever system you use for drying, you must remove the moisture from the tea with air or you will cook it not dry it.
Store your tea after cooling in airtight containers, if glass store away from light.
GOOD LUCK

FREE Tamarillo Tree when you spend over $30

We ran out of tamarillo Trees. Please follow us on Facebook, Twitter or subscribe to our Fruit Tree Email List to get our future offers.

The fruit is high in taste, vitamins and iron also they fetch a high price in fruit shops but are low in calories. Choose from thousands of plants in our Online Fruit Tree Shop then enter the code SpringFree to get one free Tamarillo Tree Red.

Comments from Australians Growing Tamarillos right now.
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Update

Here is a picture I took at Woolworths on the day our FREE Red Tamarillo Tree Offer started:

Taken in Woolworths Brisbane 22nd Sep 2011

Conditions

1. Ends 31st October 2011
2. Unless All sold out ( more likely ) 
3. You must enter the code SpringFree
4. You must spend over $30 to get this offer
5. This $30.00 is on plants and is represented in your sub total and does not include freight.
6. Online Only

Video: Abiu Tree

This very attractive yellow fruit has a flavour like caramel cream. It is definitely a delicacy to those who grow it. It is often very difficult to buy it due to it going off quickly and oxidizing quickly.

Fruit Tree Categories Updated

We have just updated our Online Fruit Tree Shop with new categories. We use to have categories like Asian Fruits, South American Fruits but thought it was time to update these new categories more along the lines of their uses rather then which country they originated from.

For example we now have Tropical Fruits, Subtropical Fruits and Temperate Fruits. Also rather then Tubestock as a category we now have Rainforest Trees and also some inner categories such as Bird Attracting Trees.

We hope you enjoy this new way of finding which fruit trees will suit you. Also you can use our Choosing Fruit Trees program to narrow down your search even more.

Screenshot showing our Online Shop Categories

National Tree Day 2011

National Tree Day promotes families getting into the outdoors to plant a tree.

Just enter the promotional code. TREEDAY11 and get 20% off the following Non Fruiting Trees:

Rainfores Trees All 20% OFF

20% OFF Rainforest Trees

20% OFF Native Trees

20% OFF Exotic Trees & Shrubs

20% OFF Native Trees & Shrubs

20% OFF Conifers

Is no NOW -> ENDS 2nd August 2011