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Strawberries

Strawberries

I love this time of year because finally, after the dormancy of winter, the taste of summer becomes evident.
We got a bumper first crop of strawberries (it's still going). All I did was apply some wood ash around the plants when they started flowering, it seems to have helped...
November 30, 2010
  Strawberries 
olmec
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Blackberries

Blackberries

Wild blackberries are a bit of a curse round here, growing rampantly wherever they can. However at this time of year they redeem themselves somewhat by offering up sweet berries.
In addition to the thorny wild plants, we have a thornless variety in the garden that produces larger, more accessible berries.
February 16, 2010
  Blackberries  weed  fruit 
olmec
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Elaeagnus x ebbingei

Elaeagnus x ebbingei

Botanical name   Elaeagnus x ebbingei
Details   Fast-growing, wind, cold & salt tolerant. Dense evergreen dark-green shrub with glossy leaves.
Highly-scented white flowers in autumn followed by orange-red edible fruit mid spring (Early October at blockhill).
Fruiting after 4 years
Nitrogen fixer.
Family   Elaeagnaceae
Flowers   White
Diameter   5.00
Forest layer   shrub
Height (m)   5
Drought tolerance  
Edible  
Evergreen  
Fruit / berries  
Nitrogen fixer  
Perennial  
Shade / Sun   Full shade to full sun
Soil type   Most
Wind tolerance   Maritime exposure
Tags     berries  spring 
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Service berry seeds

Service berry seeds

Common name   June berry, Saskatoon
Botanical name   Amelanchier alnifolia
Details   Produces flowers and edible fruit after 5 - 6 years. Slow to germinate as seed requires sold stratification
Edible  
Fruit / berries  
Perennial  
Propagate     February   March   April   May  
Tags     berries  perennial 
Price   $4.90  20 seeds
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Rosa Rugosa Seeds

Rosa Rugosa Seeds

Botanical name   Rosa Rugosa
Details   Large edible fruits (hips), which resembles cherry tomatoes, 2-3cm diameter, in late summer and early autumn. Plants often bear fruit and flowers at the same time. The leaves typically turn bright yellow before falling in autumn.
Edible  
Fruit / berries  
Perennial  
Tags     berries  edible  flowers  perennial  shrub  white 
Price   $3.90  20 seeds
Flowers   White
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Aronia Melanocarpa Seeds

Aronia Melanocarpa Seeds

Common name   Black Chokeberry
Botanical name   Aronia Melanocarpa
Details   Most commonly found in wet woods and swamps, however it grows and fruits acceptably in an elevated location in North Canterbury. Seeds from bushes planted in 2016
Edible  
Fruit / berries  
Perennial  
Tags     berries  edible  perennial 
Price   $4.90  20 seeds
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Large fruited thornless hawthorn seeds

Large fruited thornless hawthorn seeds

Common name   Chinese Hawthorn
Botanical name   Crataegus pinnatifida
Details   A deciduous tree or shrub that can grow to heights of 5-10meters. Grown widely in China for its edible red fruits, these seed come from a tree planted in 2013. This specimen is thornless and produces large quantities of big dark red fruit after white flowers. This is the only type of hawthorn we grow and there are no wild ones in close proximity (that I am aware of) so seed should be pure.
Tags     berries  deciduous  edible  fruit  perennial 
Price   $4.20  20 seeds
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Cape gooseberry seeds

Cape gooseberry seeds

Common name   goldenberry, ground cherry
Botanical name   Physalis peruviana
Details   Easily grown in warm climate, this unruly plants can get quite large and produce masses of small yellow / orange fruits a bit like cherry tomatoes, in papery cases. Frequently self seeds in areas where it has grown previously.
Edible  
Frost sensitive  
Fruit / berries  
Tags     berries  edible 
Price   $4.90  20 seeds
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Only so many hours in the day

A recent trip to Christchurch took me past Southern Woods tree nursery so I had to buy something. Today I planted out the 5 blueberries (3 varieties) and picked out locations for the 2 fejoa bushes.

The tree felling neighbour offered me the slash and pine cones from recent trees he chopped down so we ended up with 2 trailer loads of pine for winter. And it only travelled a couple of hundred meters.

Pruned one of the olive trees, more for cosmetic reason than to improve the yield.

Melisa put a lot of time into the latest chicken run and got it to a point where we could add the chooks.

Put some silicone sealant on a leaking joint in the solar water heater (so much for zero maintenance)
March 12, 2010
  blueberries  pruning  firewood 
olmec
Flavour of the day - Raspberry

Flavour of the day - Raspberry

Details   Over the past few weeks we've been getting the odd handful of berries off our small patch of raspberry canes.
Today I noticed they were dripping with fruit. Some so ripe they fell off as I brushed past the plant.
It's going to be raspberries and ice-cream for desert.
Date   March 08, 2010
Tags     Raspberry  Berries  Cane Fruit 
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