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Ceylon Spinach (Basella alba)

January 25, 2012 // 0 Comments

You don’t need a green thumb to grow tropical spinach, it is the easiest vegetable to grow. Ceylon spinach will grow either from a piece or from the dark purple fruit. It thrives in a variety of moist or wet conditions and will grow all year round. I have it growing in a bath trough in soil covered with bagasse cane mulch in full sun. It is also growing in a water soaked gravel bed ...

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Yellow Mangosteen

December 17, 2011 // 1 Comment

My yellow mangosteen is going berserk at the moment,usually it has,at any given time,flowers--small fruit--mature fruit--and two or three fruit ready to pick. It had a bit of a holiday after the "big wet" 2010/2011 ,but now, ten months later,has had a massive crop all maturing at the same time.Great if you are commercial and want to harvest the crop all at qnce, but I hope it returns to its...

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Dwarves in your backyard - Solomon varieties of dwarf coconuts

September 15, 2011 // 0 Comments

WORDS BY PAUL RICHARDSON PHOTOGRAPHS BY PAUL RICHARDSON AND ROGER GOEBEL A recent global survey found 780 described coconut varieties. Many have been developed specifically for certain commercially important traits. Tall varieties represent the majority in commercial production due to a higher copra yield and longer productive lifespan, but the merits of the dwarf varieties are well worth c...

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Adel's Grove - botanical oasis in the outback

September 15, 2011 // 3 Comments

WORDS BY ALISON GOTTS, PHOTOGRAPHS BY DIGBY GOTTS Travelling across the outback of northern Queensland, we stumbled across the extraordinary story of Albert de Lestang, who leased seventy five acres from the government in 1920, to experiment with food trees on a property near Lawn Hill, which was, and still is, an oasis in the desert. The place is called Adel’s Grove, after the initials of hi...

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Adel's Grove - botanical oasis in the outback
September 15, 2011 // 3 Comments
Spice up your life with allspice
January 17, 2006 // 2 Comments
Mossman Activities for 2011
December 16, 2011 // 2 Comments
Tree planting in the grounds of the Gin Gin High School, Queensla ...
August 23, 2009 // 1 Comment
Yellow Mangosteen
December 17, 2011 // 1 Comment

Ceylon Spinach (Basella alba)
January 25, 2012 // 0 Comments
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December 18, 2011 // 0 Comments
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