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Productive commercial orchard advice to grow fruit.

Productive garden idea in Hawthorn, Victoria

(Mary Mary quite contrary…) How do your fruit trees grow?

03/02/2022 John Fitzsimmons 692 Views 0 Comments

By John Fitzsimmons

Depending on your age and experience, the ways you perceive how fruit is grown could be extremely different. Today’s commercial orchards are radically different spaces to nostalgic visions of broad canopies of vase-pruned trees, modest fruit yields and long-term expectations, yet there are many contemporary commercial trends that could be applied to advantage in modern landscapes involving edibles, even in small spaces.… Continue reading

Australian Plant Foods, Warrigal Greens, Tetragonia tetragonioides (Image: John Fitzsimmons)

Plant Palette Plants

Australian plant foods – edible and eatable?

03/02/2022 Clive Larkman 932 Views 0 Comments

By Clive Larkman

Bush Tucker, Aussie Edibles, Native Food, are just some of the group names given to Australian native food plants over the past few decades. Like other major climatic regions, we have a mass of edible plant genera, some as leafy greens, some as fresh fruit, some as tubers and rhizomes, and some as herbs and spices.… Continue reading