Anyone managed to grow Pineapple Guava in the UK with success?
Success being - grown large enough to get reasonable bearing fruit.
Success being - grown large enough to get reasonable bearing fruit.
Uk Pineapple Guava.
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Well the impatient child in me has just hit the purchase button on Two 10lt specimens.
We will see how we go.
We will see how we go.
Yes thats the one I watched also.
Its seems to be an interesting plant , evergreen , colourful flowers , and fruiting - all capable in the UK.
Got mine from here and they are now planted up in some big Tubs.
www.paramountplants.co.uk
Feijoa Sellowiana. Pineapple Guava. Acca Sellowiana
Feijoa Sellowiana (Acca Sellowiana), hardy exotic shrub from New Zealand, also know as pineapple guava. Produces exotic edible fruit & red flowers - for sale UK
Isle of Lewis so perhaps not unexpected 
. They have a little windbreak all round them but they're still only about a foot high. No disease and I'm sure too tiny for fruit but not dead either so could be worse!
. They have a little windbreak all round them but they're still only about a foot high. No disease and I'm sure too tiny for fruit but not dead either so could be worse!
I find it amazing what you can grow here. I have an Hibiscus that was never happy in the conservatory, but really took off when I moved it to the kitchen window sill.
Hmm! Doesn't want to let post me a photo.
Hmm! Doesn't want to let post me a photo.
It's always a surprise what actually thrives, like the Oca that I grew here, but the too often disappointments because I read the pundits and their adverts and advice and planted hopefully, kind of leaves me a hearty sceptic these days.
Given a chance I think most things will grow up here.
Garden Cottage Nursery has some good info, and sell some good plants, many types from NZ, that are doing well for us http://www.gcnursery.co.uk/gardeninfo.htm
Edited to not sound like a nugget hopefully.
Garden Cottage Nursery has some good info, and sell some good plants, many types from NZ, that are doing well for us http://www.gcnursery.co.uk/gardeninfo.htm
Edited to not sound like a nugget hopefully.
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Never heard of them.
My wife is the gardener so I will run this by her. Squashes, particularly buttternut do really well here along with pumpkins & beetroot and similar but not potatoes. Any potatoe that does well tastes 'orrible!
Main thing is that the chickens don't like any part of the plant......else disaster.......or copious amounts of netting.....which is a PIA to put it mildly.
Eg; Carrots need to be a foot+ off the ground to counteract carrot root fly so the carrot bed is 18" off the ground and yaaaay, we get carrots! All that kind of 'gardening'.
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My wife is the gardener so I will run this by her. Squashes, particularly buttternut do really well here along with pumpkins & beetroot and similar but not potatoes. Any potatoe that does well tastes 'orrible!
Main thing is that the chickens don't like any part of the plant......else disaster.......or copious amounts of netting.....which is a PIA to put it mildly.
Eg; Carrots need to be a foot+ off the ground to counteract carrot root fly so the carrot bed is 18" off the ground and yaaaay, we get carrots! All that kind of 'gardening'.
S
I didn't know that about carrots
I knew about planting the French marigolds among them and it certainly helps, but 18" off the ground, copper foil tape around the pots, and I can even keep the blasted slugs off them Cheers
Plenty of 'stealth' planting is good. Mmmmm, slugs. Not my favorite!I didn't know that about carrots
Cheers
We used to raise Muscovy ducks and the two main duck houses sat on stands during the winter but were lowered to ground level so the ducklings could get in to mama. We don't raise any at present so one of the stands have been re-tasked for the carrot bed and the other for a seedling cloche.
23+ teenage ducklings do a lot of mischief!
S
