Mc Laren
Flat
Perry's
Fruit & Nut Nursery
Newsletter
How a fruit Tree is Made
Most of Australia’s deciduous fruit trees are grown in large field nurseries. First, rows of rootstocks are planted in winter into high quality soil where they grow to a size suitable for budding or grafting. This happens in the following summer. The next year the buds that have been set into the stocks grow strongly and the trees are big enough to sell in April. However, the trees must be left in the ground until they go dormant in late May. Then they are dug up. We replant them into specially prepared beds where our customers choose trees for their home orchard. This system produces strong woody trees of good shape and structure, ideal for planting into the garden.
Dragon Fruit Breakthrough?
We have grown Dragon fruit plants for a few years on a tall trellis in full sun. The plants have done well and are now quite big. They flower regularly but usually don’t set. But last year we had a beautiful fruit (see picture) that tasted delicious. It is the red pitaya. Warm and sunny corners in the warmer parts of Adelaide would be expected to get many more fruit than we do at McLaren Flat. We sell cuttings of red and yellow pitaya for $25 each from which they are easy to grow.
Plant Citrus for Health and Happiness
Use lemon juice on fish, salad and avocado, in refreshing summer drinks or as an elixir to keep colds at bay in the winter. Lemon is the everyday fruit that a garden must have. Enjoy easy peel Mandarins from May until September. Extend the picking season into summer with Honey Murcott. Keep your household in orange juice from Valencia Oranges from October until April, from Navel Oranges during winter and Blood Oranges in spring. Lemonade Tree is the tree for everyday juice. It tastes like a sweet lemon and has fruit all year round. Tangelo tastes like a tangy mandarin. Easy to peel and large, the fruit ripen in late winter and spring when other fruit is sparse. Tahitian Lime is the prince of the winter juicers with no seeds, thin skin and special flavour.
Try Our Dried Jujube
We now have 600 jujube trees planted and they yielded plenty of fruit this season. What a lovely fruit to eat fresh. If you have not tasted it then visit the nursery March-April next year and try it. This year quite a lot of fruit was split in a heavy rain. We have harvested this fruit and dried it naturally and now present it for sale. It can look a bit weird, shrivelled and brown, but the flavour and texture are superb. Buy Dried Jujube this winter.
These are just a sample of the many informative articles from the pages of our full colour Harvest - Winter 2011 Newsletter. Download the newsletter now via the link on this page or subscribe to our mailing list and we will send it out along with other seasonal and informative newsletters.
Most of Australia’s deciduous fruit trees are grown in large field nurseries. First, rows of rootstocks are planted in winter into high quality soil where they grow to a size suitable for budding or grafting. This happens in the following summer. The next year the buds that have been set into the stocks grow strongly and the trees are big enough to sell in April. However, the trees must be left in the ground until they go dormant in late May. Then they are dug up. We replant them into specially prepared beds where our customers choose trees for their home orchard. This system produces strong woody trees of good shape and structure, ideal for planting into the garden.
Dragon Fruit Breakthrough?
We have grown Dragon fruit plants for a few years on a tall trellis in full sun. The plants have done well and are now quite big. They flower regularly but usually don’t set. But last year we had a beautiful fruit (see picture) that tasted delicious. It is the red pitaya. Warm and sunny corners in the warmer parts of Adelaide would be expected to get many more fruit than we do at McLaren Flat. We sell cuttings of red and yellow pitaya for $25 each from which they are easy to grow.
Plant Citrus for Health and Happiness
Use lemon juice on fish, salad and avocado, in refreshing summer drinks or as an elixir to keep colds at bay in the winter. Lemon is the everyday fruit that a garden must have. Enjoy easy peel Mandarins from May until September. Extend the picking season into summer with Honey Murcott. Keep your household in orange juice from Valencia Oranges from October until April, from Navel Oranges during winter and Blood Oranges in spring. Lemonade Tree is the tree for everyday juice. It tastes like a sweet lemon and has fruit all year round. Tangelo tastes like a tangy mandarin. Easy to peel and large, the fruit ripen in late winter and spring when other fruit is sparse. Tahitian Lime is the prince of the winter juicers with no seeds, thin skin and special flavour.
Try Our Dried Jujube
We now have 600 jujube trees planted and they yielded plenty of fruit this season. What a lovely fruit to eat fresh. If you have not tasted it then visit the nursery March-April next year and try it. This year quite a lot of fruit was split in a heavy rain. We have harvested this fruit and dried it naturally and now present it for sale. It can look a bit weird, shrivelled and brown, but the flavour and texture are superb. Buy Dried Jujube this winter.
These are just a sample of the many informative articles from the pages of our full colour Harvest - Winter 2011 Newsletter. Download the newsletter now via the link on this page or subscribe to our mailing list and we will send it out along with other seasonal and informative newsletters.
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PLEASE NOTE this is our
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worth a read it is
currently out of date
Winter Newsletter and although
worth a read it is
currently out of date
PLEASE NOTE this is our
Winter Newsletter and although
worth a read it is
currently out of date
Winter Newsletter and although
worth a read it is
currently out of date