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$39.50 In StockDemocrat Black Dwarfing Ripens: June - July
The Dark Red (black) form of Democrat. For a long time Tasmania's mainstay export apple up until the 1980's, of a cannonball consistency and excellent keeping qualities. When left to fully ripen on the tree they are a great eating apple. Brilliant red skin and a crunchy flesh. Quite a sight when all the leaves have fallen and the red orbs are still...
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$27.50 In StockElderberry "Black Lace" Ripens: March - April
An Elderberry tree is fast growing with very light wood growing to 4-5m tall. This cultivar has richly coloured burgundy black foliage, and ladened with pinky white flower clusters (elderflower) that turn into black berries (elderberries). When happy, it will tend to form many trunks. Both the flowers and the berries are used to make a variety of...
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$39.50 In StockKingston Black Ripens: April
A dark red almost black coloured apple that makes passable single-variety cider. Bitter-sharp. Originated in Kingston, Somerset UK. Mid to late harvest. Thought by some to be the perfect cider variety. Needs high chill to set fruit.
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$18.00 In StockThornless Blackberry Ripens: March
Long elongated blackberries witout the hassle of thorns, ripening after the Logans and summer raspberries. For best taste and sweetness, leave the fruit until they come off without effort. Vigorous plant, preferring a trellis or wire for best results.
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$39.50 In StockDemocrat Dwarfing Ripens: June - July
The red form of Democrat. For a long time Tasmania's mainstay export apple up until the 1980's, of a cannonball consistency and excellent keeping qualities. When left to fully ripen on the tree they are a great eating apple. Brilliant red skin and a crunchy flesh. Quite a sight when all the leaves have fallen and the red orbs are still hanging. It's...
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$16.00 In StockBlackcurrant Ripens: February - March
A superb rich flavoured dark berry, famous for making cordial, but also wonderful in jams, pies, muffins, cakes, wines, syrups. Bird protection essential!
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Black Genoa Fig Ripens: February
Excellent flavoured large fruit with greenish purple skin and dark red, rich sweet flesh. A reliable, heavy cropper with two crops a year. Vigorous, spreading tree. Fruits in February for three months. Use for fresh fruit, drying and jam. Figs prefer dry hot summers but need water when fruiting, and prefer well drained but fertile soil. Full-sun....
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$39.50 In StockKing David Ripens: April - May
Dating back to Arkansas 1890's, this is thought to be a cross between Jonathon and Black Arkansas or Winesap. Quite a spicy / tart apple, similar to a winesap - ideal for cider. Very juicy. Red to dark black in colour, ripens late.
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$18.00 In StockYoungberry Ripens: February - March
Delicious large roundish berries. Ripe when deep black with a mat (not shiny) surface. Grows as a spreading bramble, with trailing canes reaching up to 3m in length. Fewer Spines than Boysenberry. A blend between a Raspberry, Blackberry, and a Dewberry. Youngberry fruit on second year canes. developed by BM Young in Louisiana USA 1905.
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$18.00 In StockBoysenberry Ripens: February - March
Amazing tasting large plump black / purple berries. Grows as a spreading bramble, with trailing canes reaching up to 3m in length. A cross between a blackberry, dewberry, raspberry and loganberry. Lots of spines but totally worth it! Boysenberries fruit on second year canes. Probably from 1920 USA.
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$39.50 In StockSpartan Dwarfing Ripens: March - April
A striking beautiful apple, with purplish black skin and whiter-than-white flesh, looking stunning when polished. Better still, the flesh is crisp, quite juicy and excellent eaten straight off the tree. Originating in Canada in the 1920's, it's a cross between McIntosh and Newtown Pippin. Definitely a favourite.
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$39.50 In StockSimone Ripens: January - February
Simone is one of the new varieties of cherries that have come out of breeding programs in south-west Canada. The fruit is large - almost like a small plum, black, succulent and tasty. Quite resistant (more or less) to splitting when ripe. Self pollinating although having another variety will increase yield. Ripen from mid December to late January.
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$39.50 In StockStella Ripens: January
A hugely popular variety, again from a breeding program in south-west Canada 1968. Large fruit almost the size of a small plum, dark purple or black skin, succulent and sweet. Quite resistant to splitting when ripe. Self pollinating although having another variety will increase yield. Has a reputation for pollinating most other cherries, so a must-have...
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$39.50 In StockLapin Ripens: January - February
Lapin is a cross between Stella and Van, and ripens a bit later in the season. From Canada in the 1960’s. Large plump fruit - almost like a small plum, black, succulent, tasty and sweet. Quite resistant (more or less) to splitting when ripe. Self pollinating though it's better to plant two just in case (and extend the season).
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Espaliering Made Easy
Despite what the gardening media can imply, people who actually do produce their own food or part of it, know it is not a matter of skipping through the flower-dotted lawn to pick a perfect lettuce of a plump peach from a sweet little garden ringed with calendulas. The sweet little garden is more likely to be ringed with wire netting
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Espaliering Made Even Easier - KNNN method
You may have noticed that there is a quiet revolution happening in gardening in Australia. It may have something to do with the environment and it may have something to do with the industrialisation of the way much of our food is produced. Many people are genuinely trying to produce some part of their own food in their own
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$16.00 In StockJostaberry Ripens: February - March
Jostaberries are a cross between a black currant and a goosberry. Size of the fruit is in between it's parents and the flavour is also a mixture. Sweet but tangy, this fruit is great eaten fresh but ideal for jam, pies and preserved. The bush is thornless, growing up to 1.5m, can be easily trained onto a trellis. Bird protection essential!
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$39.50 Out of stockVan Ripens: January
Another fine eating cherry, originating in Canada in the 1940's before the self-fertile ones like Stella, Sunburst and Lapin were bred. Red to black in colour, medium to large sized fruit. A really excellent lightly spicy, sweet flavour. Mid season. Requires pollination by Stella, Early Burlat, Ranier, Bing or Lapin. Still grown commercially.
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$42.00 In StockDue Buoi LEFT HANDED grafting knife
The only Left handed grafting knife in our range.Due Buoi are an Italian knife maker and this knife has a straight blade, bark lifter and a solid medium black plastic handle. Carbon blades should be wiped with a lightly oiled rag after use, and sharpened with a diamond sharpener - something like an EZElap sharpener.
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$18.00 In StockElderberry Ripens: March - April
An Elderberry tree is fast growing with very light wood growing to 4-5m tall. This common cultivar has green foliage and white flowers, white flower clusters (elderflower) that turn into black berries (elderberries). When happy, it will tend to form many trunks. Both the flowers and the berries are used to make a variety of cordials, wines, relishes,...
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$23.00 In StockTasmanian Pepperberry - FEMALE Ripens: March
A native to Tasmania (Tasmannia lanceolata) forming a shrub or small tree 1-3m. Grown for it's edible pepper corns, which when dried are a great substitute for black pepper. Form an attractive tree, with red stem and small ovate dark green peppery leaves. Small white flowers in summer, forming berries in Autumn. The female forms the berries, but needs a...
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$14.50 Out of stockBitumen Rubber graft sealing paint 500mL
This bitumen based sealant is used primarily to paint an exposed pruning cut or to dab the scion after grafting or pruning. Also useful for painting the lower part of a fruit tree trunk (40-50cm) to prevent rabbits nibbling. Handles easier than Tree Stac, and says more visible (black). Apply with a brush or just a stick to dab it on. 500mL tub. It comes...
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$39.50 In StockGeeveston Fanny Dwarfing Ripens: March - April
A small attractive bright reddish purple apple with white sweet flesh. Ideal for lunchboxes. Heavy and regular bearer. This variety was popular as a commercial apple during the 1970's in Tasmania. The story goes like this: about 1870 Mr Hawkins, the storekeeper at Shipwrights Point near Huonville imported 6 apple trees of unknown variety and sold them to...
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Growing Hazelnuts
The Hazel is an unusual and interesting plant. There are hazel varieties native to all the temperate zones of the northern hemisphere - North America, Europe, Turnkey, China and even the Himalayas but only one (the European hazel) is cultivated for its edible nuts. It appears (from pollen counts in peat bogs) that the hazel was
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Pruning - the grape story
The grape vine is probably the plant most dependent on rigorous and hard pruning to maintain it in a vigorous cropping cycle. Have you ever seen an abandoned vineyard? It’s not very nice. In order to produce grapes we resort to very 'un - natural' techniques. If left to their own device grapes being natural climbers weave their way
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Rabbits and Apple Trees
It seems rabbits (and sometimes hares) have a definite taste for apple trees - often particularly newly planted ones during winter. We’re regularly receiving calls from people (gardeners) who have gone out one morning to find their trees stripped of bark up to a height of 30cm (rabbit height) - so watch out! The best way to avoid this
