Had a neighbour who planted one where his old chicken run had been for the previous 20 years (in excess of a metre of chook manure). The thing pretty much grew over night and had fruit roughly the size of a large grapefruit (although still feijoa shaped), they were super sweet to eat as well
@@WarmFuzzyVibes I rented a house that neighbors told me was built where a chicken ranch had once been. Everything I planted did great, including the peach tree I sadly left behind when we moved.
In New Zealand the feijoa we always said needs two to pollinate. I’ve always wondered why other countries dont grow it as it grows so easily in the north island. We scoop out the fruit as we can’t eat them all and freeze them on trays then put into plastic bagsso you can take out what you want. I make puddings chutneys and jams through the winter. They keep best if you pick them, if they come away easily they are ready rather than off the ground where they can bruise. My two are still producing thousands after 50 years.
Feijoa cake? I used to have a recipe that included yoghurt and desiccated coconut but I used shredded because I like it so much, then thinly sliced feijoa, skin on, for on the top before baking. Moist and delish.
@@flash_flood_area one of the most popular oranges from our local citrus area was identified by baboons targeting certain trees weeks before the others were ready.
My parents had one of these. They bought the house in 1968 it was a big tree then. It finally succumbed to old age in 2020, 75+ years old. I miss the jelly my mother would make from the fruit every year.
You may also plant pawpaw tree, it's George Washington's favorite fruit and it tastes really good, kind like a sweet fruit that combined flavors of many different fruits, pineapple, mongo, banana, etc. etc.
These are on my list, just not quite yet. I currently still live in a subdivision. Once I get ready to sell this, I will be buying land and building custom, and that will be when I go nuts with things like Paw Paws, Mulberry, and a lot more.
Planting them from seed will get a tree that is faster to establish, but you'll be not be able to pick a flavor. Just go for it and plant some seeds and thin out the ones that produce meh fruit or sell the ones you don't care for in your front yard as a novelty item...
Thanks for replying, if you find a pawpaw tree, you can easily find small pawpaw shoots around the big tree, simply dig and cut them will give you some new trees to plant in your yard. It's pretty look tree with nice and clean leaves. In case a pawpaw tree has small or bad fruits, one can easily graft good brunches on it to get high quality pawpaw fruits:).
My dad planted one in Auckland NZ in 1954 it was still growing and producing an abundance of fruit when he died in 2012. We were a family of eight children, and we had many delicious desserts made with those tasty fruit. When we were playing outside We loved to snack on them. That wonderful tree must have produced at least a ton of fruit. Such a no fuss tree to grow 💕
@@VWilt-so3ws I should imagine he is talking about the Feijoa as they are a very popular fruit here in NZ. The reason countries don’t export this fruit is because they don’t keep very long but they are delicious but an unusual taste.
Last year we made a liqueur from just the tart skins using brandy and vodka. Steeped for one month, then filtered out the skins and aged for another month. Good stuff!
How fantastic to be 70yrs and still discovering new things! Mom had a guava tree out back and they were wonderful, but I've never seen this! And at the home depot no less! Thanks for sharing 😘
We have a lot of them growing as a hedge around our orchard, in NZ, and find that they thrive on a mulch of lawn clippings. While they will tolerate drought conditions, the best fruit are from well-watered plants.
My experience as well, feijoas grown in drought are generally small and tough. Be prepared to heavily water them after the fruit sets if you want really juicy fruit.
thanks for that tip. I always wondered what was so special about feijoa, they seemed dry and too sour from yards where i live. Now i know why. Adelaide SAust has very low rainfall, on top of that we are coastal as well, gardens are all on top of deep sand dunes. Everything is a bit challenging for plants unless you put special topcover onto the dune base. Its an older suburb, the senior gardeners all know this but i learned the hard way!
I often indulged myself while walking to school during the sixties. The Feijoa could often be found in hedge rows. Unfortunately sadly missed as is the Tamerillo (Tree Tomato)
Feijoa, is so delicious, in my country Colombia we grow this beautiful plant in a little town call Tibasosa ( Boyaca) the residents make diferente desserts and juice from it. If you go there you can eat feijoa in a lot different ways. Look online for this little town is small and beautiful. ❤️🇨🇴🇺🇸❤️
Mine is 15 years and still giving strong. I love the color of this very drought tolerant bush and especially the delicious fruits. I get 2 crops a year here on the Central Coast of CA. This bush deserves all accolades.
I learned about them back in 1976! They were growing as an ornamental shrub along the side of the Jr high school I attended. It was an absolutely wonderful discovery.
Growing up in New Zealand this was one of the trees often seen in back gardens. The largest I ever climbed must have been approx 25' tall and produced so much fruit we were giving them away because we just couldn't consume them. My sister is now growing them as a commercial crop on her small holding where in winter it gets down to -7C. Very hardy and a great treat to walk out and collect them for breakfast.
@@TheYuleTube I live in Perth Western Australia and mine has no problems with the heat. We cop lots of 35C + days throughout summer and regular 40+ days as well. Pretty bomb proof
I have two that grow close to each other. Mine is like 5 years old and this year I got plenty of fruits. I love to eat them with the skin. Tastes bitter sweet. I love the aromatic flavor.
One of my favorites too! Super durable plant, beautiful silver foliage and very productive once mature. Also surprisingly delicious, my favorite backyard fruit. I'm in the SF Bay Area and add them to many of my designs every chance I get
@@galinarumennik4646 The botanical name is feijoa sellowiana, the common name is Pineapple Guava. You could find or order them at any local nursery. If you would like to support a small local business, call Lisa at Green Point Nursery. It's at the corner of Atherton and Olive in Novato. She's awesome. Sometimes limited stock on hand, but she can usually get anything I need in a couple days.
Us New Zealanders eat them by the bucket full in autumn - most of us have trees or hedges even in our gardens. Feijoa jam, sauce, chutney and preserves mmmm. Our feijoa trees can grow pretty big too.
I'm in NZ too. My parents had a very ancient tree, I have no clue how old it was but I know its still at their old property, I'm 63 and its a good deal older than me. It used to feed the neighborhood.
Sounds they would grow OK in our area of central Texas hill country. We were Zone 8b but got downgraded to Zone 8a and lost all our citrus trees we had grown since 2012 last February. We had kumquats and grapefruit that always survived with plankets, quilts and heat lamps. My spouse cried when they didn't come back from the roots last summer.
I’m so sorry. I’m not sure how big those trees are. Do you think if others have still survived but could be struggling would little green houses from recycled sliders etc. save them?
Yes yes yes it's fantastic and delicious! We loved it so much that we used to sneak out at night to pick up any ripe ones before the rest of the family did. Only problem is we ran into each other as well. The ones that fall down were best.
We have a feijoa in our backyard. Got to agree, an unusual plant with the possible exception of New Zealand, where I believe, just about everyone has one on their back yard. And a very unusual but delicious flavour. Nice video! I am going to take cuttings and set up a plantation!
Four in my yard, and trees in many other yards around my town. I dog walk and collect them from the neighbourhood on my travels. Can't stand them myself but collect for the family.
You are right they are very popular here. New Zealanders eat vast amounts of them in season. It would be interesting to know why we took them to our hearts when no one else has (and they are not native, being originally fromSouth America I believe)
Wow! I was out for a walk in my North Vancouver 'hood and came across one these fruits hanging over someone's fence. No clue what it was, and now I know. We rarely get lower than -5ºC (23ºF) at the peak of winter. I've remembered the little fruit for years and wondered WTF it could be! Definitely the only one I've seen!
Feijoa sellowiana is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. It is native to the highlands of southern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, Uruguay, northern Argentina and Colombia. It is widely grown as an ornamental tree and for its fruit.
Sounds like my FL Crepe Myrtle but they never got fruit. But I've never grown an easier growing, break a stick, stick in the ground and it'd grow! tree or bush , depends on how you trim it. And so many beautiful colors. They were great!
@@plantabundance I just have to keep the dog and birds away from all edibles in my garden. Apparently my Malamute loves bean leaves 😂 And ripe tomatoes. Love your show. Thank you for all the great tips. 💜
I have one of these trees where I live which is 30 minutes north of San Francisco in California. The previous owner mentioned Pineapple-Guava and the other botanical names. That was many years ago. Since then, no one else who has seen it has ever known what it was. Thank you for the confirmation! I cut them in half & eat the inside with a spoon. They remind me of Gerber Banana baby food with Pineapple, and they're delicious!
Nice! I also live North of SF by Clear Lake. It never freezes, but can get to and over 100F in summer. Rains only Nov-April. Was wondering if I could plant a Feijoa bush/tree here, so thanks, now I know :) I have just the spot for it , too. Only thing is the spot has dappled sun/shade so I'll need to check if that is ok. And I'll have to find out where I can buy one around here out in the boonies. Maybe Mendo mills
We have a pineapple guava. The birds love them, mainly for the flowers, and it's a good nesting tree that stays small and you can cut them back and shape them a lot. Anyone who wants bird-friendly landscaping should have these.
Another Kiwi (from New Zealand) if you water plant regularly once flower appears you get a bigger fruit. I often pick from tree as i like them better you can tell if ready as they will fall off in your hand. Great in smoothies, on toast (if you are a savory person sprinkle a little salt or pepper) or on your cereal, porridge. Yum Yum bubblegum.
I love pineapple guava which my husband recognized during our walk in the neighborhood (Hayward, CA) ; the fruit was mildly sour but sweet and easy to scoop out the inside (like kiwi fruit). I guess it needs alot of sun to grow.
Kiwi tastes acid when you are able to scoop it, sour when they are picked, i like to peel my kiwi fruit with potato peeler and feijoa, i miss eating them by the bag full.
Many thanks for illuminating me about a fruit of which I had no previous knowledge. I've ordered some and am looking forward to growing them and eating the obviously delicious fruit.
I did not know about this fruit tree and while investigating it turned out to be native to southern Brazil, northern Argentina called feijoa guava. Living in Argentina I never tasted its fruit, nor have I ever seen it. I'll get it and plant it in the fruit forest.
I'm from Colombia and I remember my neighbor had a Feijoa tree, it's a beautiful tree the flowers are pretty the fruit is delicious. Thank you.... I'm thinking in getting one in New York... Yes, we used to eat the fruits right from the tree.... good memories...
I have 4 varieties of these. I came across an ancient one in a historic town. It wasnt higher than about 4 metres, but the trunk was almost a metre wide.
There's an old variety that produces round fruit and is highly sweet , In nz it's a far north , Olde time tree, . The best , if you keep them well watered and throw some chook muck round them , the fruit is almost tennis ball size . Yum
You can grow these from cuttings too. I planted a whole hedge once from the pruning's from a friends property. Very successful I saw the hedge which is 20yrs old now last year its huge and I bet a heavy fruiter.
@@plantabundance Indeed I did it because after buying that property I had no money left and a lot of bare dirt cuttings are a great way to grow an orchard, another plant is the Tamarillo fruits very quickly and a great dessert fruit.
@@roberthayes8603 Feijoa's as they are known here in New Zealand are very common and a popular hedge plant they are also popular as a food. This one is in Auckland I won't pinpoint it as someone else onws that property now.
I've got 8 in the ground so far and 60 potted up ready to go. Can't get enough of them. I like to tip them everytime they push a new shoot to get a tight bush.
I had a client in Santa Cruz with one of these. Delicious. He recommended rolling it firmly between your hands to liquefy the inside, cut off one end & slurp it out.
I have four varieties of feijoa (as we call them here in New Zealand), including two new cultivars: Wiki Tu and Unique. They are suited to at least 200 hours of winter chill ( < 12° C ) each season. And yes, those smoothies.
Fruit of the Gods. My absolute favourite which I'll eat by the bucket load in season. Every house used to have a couple of feijoa trees in NZ. I have 1 which is probably 4 or 5 years old and producing well but I'm planting another in a week or 2.
When we moved to aussie, this was one of the fruit that we missed. We were lucky enought to buy a young plant over here and now we are just waiting for it to fruit. We were also able to grab a Tamarillo tree as well.
@@quittrynabemeyouredoingaba6852 mandarin...mmm..that would be nice as well, seedless ones. My wife would love the pear but the peach would be nice as well.
I grew up in New Zealand and the Fejoa tree was everywhere. And I Love them. Everyone hated them and ripped the trees out. Now it's a very expensive fruit. I now live in Australia and we can only get a grafted version
I'm starting a bunch of these in north Florida. They are extremely delicate as seedlings and it seems to take them a long time to get going. They need to be hand tall before they are transplanted. Once they are at that point they seem to be very durable. Here they grow in sand, the winters swing from freezing to really warm, it doesn't rain in the spring or fall, in the summer it's very hot and humid and rains every day.
In N FL too. I have a pair of them in my front yard, trunks thick as my wrist, they flower profusely in the spring, seem to be visited by pollinators and I have done some with a paintbrush, but they have never set fruit. The nursery just says I need to plant a few more. Hmmm.
@@ROTALOT There aren't a lot of them around. It's possible you have two clones that won't cross pollinate. A seedling tree might be what you need. But you can always eat the flowers, they are delicious.
@@nonyadamnbusiness9887 that must be it because from same nursery. I will ask around to see whose is bearing fruit and get ideas from them too. Thanks!
@@MyVisualRomance I have friends around Gainesville with plants that are 10+ feet tall and producing buckets of fruit every year. Find a warm spot, you should be good. You've actually got dirt to grow them in.
Absolutely LOVE my pineapple Guava tree..have had it for 5 years and it almost always produces great/tasty fruit!!!!!!!!!!! Always wait until the fruit is a bit soft before eating..the flowers have a cinnamon flavor to them!!
I love eating the flowers! They're so beautiful and taste like floral, musky fondant. I've desired a feijoa for years ... it seems every backyard where I live has one except for mine! Unfortunately several years back biosecurity laws changed and now I can't source one into my state (South Australia). The only ones sold in nurseries are the seedlings that don't grow true to type or produce fruit and the grafted fruit producing ones are no where to be found (except in other people's yards haha).
I learned about this plant some time ago and if you know poeple with them it does quit well from cuting just ask for some of the cut branches when it is trimed in "fall" which is the best time for trimming, I little rooting hormone plastic pots soil and I little care you can have them
@@mystylangston4803 Thank you. Yes, I did ask one of my neighbours for some cuttings but they were uninterested (even offered some of my fig tree cuttings in exchange!). I will have to try and find a house in my neighbourhood with a feijoa overhanging the property line and take a few sneaky cuttings.
@@one4sorrow lol well so sorry for your luck. For myself I just got my first two bushes but the nursery that shipped them were unsure of the type and I want to get early mid and late ones so to have a full 3 months of them, I Am hoping to deduce witch ones they are by when they bloom and how the fruit looks and then look for more.
My neighbor has one that clings over my fence. He never trims or take cares of it (a tall and outgrown tree). I am the one trimming the branches over my side as much as can except the tall ones. Maybe I should consider propagate? My dogs love the fruits though. I am in zone 9b. This TH-camr is in the Bay Area California.
I’d love to grow one or more of these trees if I could find somewhere to buy them? I’ve never seen or even heard of them before till now. But I always enjoy trying new or different kinds of plants. Especially plants that have editable fruit or good for breaking up clay! Here where I live in Camas, Washington our growing season is short many times. Temps can drop into even below 15 degrees at times. It’s also very windy here and not too unusual to see winds in the 30-40 mph range if not higher once in a great while! Soil also a huge problem being it’s clay soil. But I have spent literally thousands of dollars bringing in garden soil and adding 8-12” to the ground. Trying to dig more holes and bury chunks of tree trunks and other large branches as well and also do quite a bit of chipping branches and letting the chips just lay on top of the ground. Doing anything I can think of trying to break down the clay soil as much as possible to have a better soil throughout my property. It’s can be a expensive project if trying to add good soil and a very long process trying to amend the soil with burying wood and adding wood chips to break down in the soil as well. I’m learning that there’s also some plants that helps with breaking down clay soil too like comfrey and I’m hoping to get some of those plants and add them to my property as well. Probably won’t get my soil exactly where I want it to be in my lifetime since I’m 65 years old now, but suppose I’ll have a nice start for whoever gets my property in the future and hopefully they’ll take advantage of all the hard work and effort I’ve put into approving the soil here? I’ve got 5 acres as well as my neighbors and so far I’m the only one making a effort to improve the soil and break up all this clay that’s like concrete to work with when it’s dry in the summer! Digging a 2 ft deep ditch 350 ft long to run water down to my garden area by hand using just a shovel was quite the chore and took more weeks then I care of think about. But I finally got it done and sure enjoy having water at the garden now rather then having to drag around 300 ft of garden hoses around everywhere. Make life a lot easier in the long run! Getting older means trying to work smarter and not harder a lot more of a necessity these days. Even bringing in chickens on the land now and letting them free range should help the soil too eventually. Hoping to get the soil where it’s better draining since so many plants need good drainage to grow well. Which I can’t plant now till I get the soil where it does drain much better then it does now! Been working on it over 10 years now and still got a long ways to go to have soil I can count on draining well. Really sucks when you get a rain storm and your property resembles more of a swimming pool then a field! Why I’ve added a lot of garden soil to raise the lower areas with hopes of not having so much standing water. It’s getting better, but it’s a slow process! Maybe one of these days the soil will be good to plant most anything that can handle the temps here and the wind? I hope?
@@grey1wa my neighbors describe me as the guy alway working on his property! LOL If I’m not sleeping, I’m usually out working on the property. Least when the weather is descent. I don’t care for working in the cold nor the rain! But I got plenty of inside projects to do too! Working on putting in a custom curb less shower for my partner since her knees and legs are so bad that she can barely lift her foot off the ground/ floor. I’ve installed showers before, but this is my first curbless shower that perfectly flush with the bathroom floor so you could even roll a wheelchair in the shower if needed! I love a challenge! LOL Take care!
I hope you get it where you want it so you can enjoy the fruits and vegetables of your labor. Seriously good for you. If you ever sell it, please it on to someone who's interested in continuing your love of the land. I have read where weeds like the one you talked about send down deep runners and will help break it up and bring nutrients up towards the top. However the 1 your talking about does go wild and you might regret that. This guy has a video on it. Anyways Bravo and my best to you and your partner. May good earth come soon for you, blessings, vicki Ps hope the curbless shower works out well also. Your a good man.
Never heard of this fruit!!! Sounds friggin good!! Any tips where to get seeds? Do you ever sell seeds or slips? Or please reccomend a place that does, online, that you trust... thanks Dan!!
The Feijoa is almost a national tree here in New Zealand. We use them for so many dishes. Kids have them for school lunches. If you walk through our supermarkets, so many products are Feijoa flavoured. They are often used for hedges and the fruit feeds the poor, since you can't eat it all. We give bags of it away. Very tasty fruit
I live in New Zealand and feijoa grow very well in our climate. Most people either have their own or have access to trees - their fruit become a staple diet come autumn!! I have one self pollinator which is currently flowering brilliantly (it's late spring down here) esp now since I extended garden bed to include the tree. I love the idea of peeling to eat never tried that but now can't wait! 😋🤤
Thanks for sharing! Are they grown in your local for other reasons as well? i.e, wind block, privacy, ornamental? A peeler is defiantly the way to go if you want to remove the skin. Cheers!
LOL in New Zealand you can't give these away! Every back garden has a tree or two and they are sold for a couple of dollars a bag on road side stalls. We stew them, eat them raw, turn them into wine, make chutney, put them in pies, have them for breakfast, give them away, and when we are fed up with them just leave them to rot on the ground! We call them feijoas
We have one that is about 30 feet tall now, when it flowers looks like the NZ Christmas tree, we don’t do anything for it and it is prolific Penrith Aust
Unbelievable...I have recently discovered one of these in my new garden here in Italy, and it's just dropped its fruit. The flowers are exquisite looking things but I didn't know you could eat them. You seem to have an enormous garden. Whereabouts are you? That's one sweet patch of well-cared for ground all right. And thanks for reminding me to plant loads of comfrey in the spring. A new garden and vegetable plot needs massive initial input but it's great because it's a blank page, and I can't wait to get going (even though I got all my winter stuff in now). Thanks for your well-made and stimulating videos.
Comfrey will take over a garden with runners or stolons it sends out unless you have a barrier to them. I've heard there is a type without stolons, but mine aren't those.
@@robertdouglas8895 bocking 14 is the variety of comfrey you need it's non invasive. The book you need is Comfrey by Laurence Hills,I met him in the 80,s at his trial ground in Bocking Essex where he ran the HDRA and had 4 allotment plots with the same plantings in each and the one treated with comfrey and companion planting outperformed the other 3by some margin.
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What's your favorite color? Let me know in the comments below! Cheers!
My favorite color is sapphire blue, but I use other colors.
royal purple
My favorite color is grey. Where did you get that peeler?
RSmith Asian market. You can find them online as well.
Orange 🍊🧡🥕🏵
Had a neighbour who planted one where his old chicken run had been for the previous 20 years (in excess of a metre of chook manure).
The thing pretty much grew over night and had fruit roughly the size of a large grapefruit (although still feijoa shaped), they were super sweet to eat as well
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@@WarmFuzzyVibes I rented a house that neighbors told me was built where a chicken ranch had once been. Everything I planted did great, including the peach tree I sadly left behind when we moved.
In New Zealand the feijoa we always said needs two to pollinate. I’ve always wondered why other countries dont grow it as it grows so easily in the north island. We scoop out the fruit as we can’t eat them all and freeze them on trays then put into plastic bagsso you can take out what you want. I make puddings chutneys and jams through the winter. They keep best if you pick them, if they come away easily they are ready rather than off the ground where they can bruise. My two are still producing thousands after 50 years.
We only have one and it's prolific... Unfortunately, the opossums and raccoons are better at harvesting than I am...
That's wonderful to hear. Thanks for commenting!
Feijoa cake? I used to have a recipe that included yoghurt and desiccated coconut but I used shredded because I like it so much, then thinly sliced feijoa, skin on, for on the top before baking. Moist and delish.
One of my favourite fruits. I have on in a pot living in Brisbane.
I have a photo of my daughter with a wheelbarrow full of them in P/North lol
My grandpa had a small garden with all kinds of fruit trees. Grandma taught me to look for freshly fallen fruits for the best ones
Back when I had a little peach tree, I found that the ones with a small bird peck were noticeably sweeter than the un-touched ones
@@flash_flood_area one of the most popular oranges from our local citrus area was identified by baboons targeting certain trees weeks before the others were ready.
That's wzup! Good memories & knowledge @ the same time!
If you have apples , get the fruit to eat after a frost has hit them .
A much improved flavour , and sweeter .
@@davidarundel6187 thanks for the tip, we luckily don't get snow or frost.
My parents had one of these. They bought the house in 1968 it was a big tree then. It finally succumbed to old age in 2020, 75+ years old. I miss the jelly my mother would make from the fruit every year.
You may also plant pawpaw tree, it's George Washington's favorite fruit and it tastes really good, kind like a sweet fruit that combined flavors of many different fruits, pineapple, mongo, banana, etc. etc.
i got six paw paw trees every tree is different but all are amazing so far my favorite has marshmello mango like flavor.
These are on my list, just not quite yet. I currently still live in a subdivision. Once I get ready to sell this, I will be buying land and building custom, and that will be when I go nuts with things like Paw Paws, Mulberry, and a lot more.
Planting them from seed will get a tree that is faster to establish, but you'll be not be able to pick a flavor. Just go for it and plant some seeds and thin out the ones that produce meh fruit or sell the ones you don't care for in your front yard as a novelty item...
Thanks for replying, if you find a pawpaw tree, you can easily find small pawpaw shoots around the big tree, simply dig and cut them will give you some new trees to plant in your yard. It's pretty look tree with nice and clean leaves. In case a pawpaw tree has small or bad fruits, one can easily graft good brunches on it to get high quality pawpaw fruits:).
A lot of people don't know this but you need two pawpaw trees to get fruit. Same reason why you need two avocado trees to get fruit.
I’m a landscaper in a cold city in Australia. Fiejoa hedge well, and as they’re so tough can be great as wind/sun protection for more delicate plants.
My dad planted one in Auckland NZ in 1954 it was still growing and producing an abundance of fruit when he died in 2012.
We were a family of eight children, and we had many delicious desserts made with those tasty fruit. When we were playing outside
We loved to snack on them. That wonderful tree must have produced at least a ton of fruit. Such a no fuss tree to grow 💕
What tree are you talking about. There's so many different ones being talked about here in comments. Thanks
@@VWilt-so3ws I should imagine he is talking about the Feijoa as they are a very popular fruit here in NZ. The reason countries don’t export this fruit is because they don’t keep very long but they are delicious but an unusual taste.
Last year we made a liqueur from just the tart skins using brandy and vodka. Steeped for one month, then filtered out the skins and aged for another month. Good stuff!
How fantastic to be 70yrs and still discovering new things!
Mom had a guava tree out back and they were wonderful, but I've never seen this! And at the
home depot no less!
Thanks for sharing 😘
My favorite guava, and can never find it in the stores. Thank you for showcasing!
Wow, last time I had one of those was about 45 years ago, never knew the name, but we loved it as children. Thanks now I know the name.
We have a lot of them growing as a hedge around our orchard, in NZ, and find that they thrive on a mulch of lawn clippings. While they will tolerate drought conditions, the best fruit are from well-watered plants.
My experience as well, feijoas grown in drought are generally small and tough. Be prepared to heavily water them after the fruit sets if you want really juicy fruit.
thanks for that tip. I always wondered what was so special about feijoa, they seemed dry and too sour from yards where i live. Now i know why. Adelaide SAust has very low rainfall, on top of that we are coastal as well, gardens are all on top of deep sand dunes. Everything is a bit challenging for plants unless you put special topcover onto the dune base. Its an older suburb, the senior gardeners all know this but i learned the hard way!
the dunes are only about a half a kilometre in, the rest of the city is clay loam and easier access to water table than where i am!
Beautiful video.
God loves us so much. And gave us many.
Glad to learn about the pineapple guava. I’ve never heard of this plant.
In AotearoaNZL we call this fruit Feijoa (sounds like fee-joe-ah) and it is a fairly short season in Autumn.
@@cherylreid2964 Thanks!❤️
They are not known as pineapple guava apart from in USA. They are called feijoas after its botanical name.
Actually, we call it feijoa in the states too. I don't hear pineapple guava much, just feijoa.
@@SA-tr5lv In Arizona I have only heard pineapple guava tho. People usually just grow them as an ornamental
I often indulged myself while walking to school during the sixties. The Feijoa could often be found in hedge rows.
Unfortunately sadly missed as is the Tamerillo (Tree Tomato)
Feijoa, is so delicious, in my country Colombia we grow this beautiful plant in a little town call Tibasosa ( Boyaca) the residents make diferente desserts and juice from it. If you go there you can eat feijoa in a lot different ways. Look online for this little town is small and beautiful. ❤️🇨🇴🇺🇸❤️
Mine is 15 years and still giving strong. I love the color of this very drought tolerant bush and especially the delicious fruits. I get 2 crops a year here on the Central Coast of CA.
This bush deserves all accolades.
My parent's trees are over 50 years old.
They like a prune and mulching.
I learned about them back in 1976! They were growing as an ornamental shrub along the side of the Jr high school I attended.
It was an absolutely wonderful discovery.
Growing up in New Zealand this was one of the trees often seen in back gardens. The largest I ever climbed must have been approx 25' tall and produced so much fruit we were giving them away because we just couldn't consume them. My sister is now growing them as a commercial crop on her small holding where in winter it gets down to -7C. Very hardy and a great treat to walk out and collect them for breakfast.
How heat tolerant would you say they are? I live in north Texas, and seeing a temp of 35-40C wouldn't be wierd in the summer.
They seem to be fine at 30c iv not seen them suffer in the heat should be good 😊
@@kiwi8. Fantastic to hear. Now, I just need to make sure they are safe for my specific species of toroise to eat. Thanks!
@@TheYuleTube I live in Perth Western Australia and mine has no problems with the heat. We cop lots of 35C + days throughout summer and regular 40+ days as well.
Pretty bomb proof
@@emceeboogieboots1608 Excellent to hear. I have to be careful with this sort of thing, otherwise I just waste time and money. Thanks!
I have two that grow close to each other. Mine is like 5 years old and this year I got plenty of fruits. I love to eat them with the skin. Tastes bitter sweet. I love the aromatic flavor.
One of my favorites too! Super durable plant, beautiful silver foliage and very productive once mature. Also surprisingly delicious, my favorite backyard fruit. I'm in the SF Bay Area and add them to many of my designs every chance I get
Where can I get the tree? I am in Marin
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@@galinarumennik4646 The botanical name is feijoa sellowiana, the common name is Pineapple Guava. You could find or order them at any local nursery. If you would like to support a small local business, call Lisa at Green Point Nursery. It's at the corner of Atherton and Olive in Novato. She's awesome. Sometimes limited stock on hand, but she can usually get anything I need in a couple days.
My tree won't put out any fruit .. it's 4 years old anything I can do to make it flower
@@Harry_Beanbag where is Lisa, in what country, state etc. Thanks so much. I'll be supporting her if she's got them, even for future
Us New Zealanders eat them by the bucket full in autumn - most of us have trees or hedges even in our gardens. Feijoa jam, sauce, chutney and preserves mmmm. Our feijoa trees can grow pretty big too.
Very nice! Thanks for sharing!
I'm in NZ too. My parents had a very ancient tree, I have no clue how old it was but I know its still at their old property, I'm 63 and its a good deal older than me. It used to feed the neighborhood.
NZ here too. I have a couple of trees and they are in flower right now. Looking forward autumn
Feijoa wine is Devine too!!
Another Kiwi here......My favourites , so plentiful. You can freeze them whole to use all year round.
Great video! Educational as well as entertaining! Thank you for sharing!
I’m zone 10a, hovering on zone 9b, so this is helpful. Thank you.
Sounds they would grow OK in our area of central Texas hill country. We were Zone 8b but got downgraded to Zone 8a and lost all our citrus trees we had grown since 2012 last February. We had kumquats and grapefruit that always survived with plankets, quilts and heat lamps. My spouse cried when they didn't come back from the roots last summer.
I lost lemon trees. I understand the heartbreak.
Is is heartbreaking to lose the trees!
I’m so sorry. I’m not sure how big those trees are. Do you think if others have still survived but could be struggling would little green houses from recycled sliders etc. save them?
Seen any pawpaws since the St. Valentine's day chill? I'm wondering how they fared since then as well.
@@SowLoveJoyTruthLight what is a green recycled slider please, thank you vicki
Yes yes yes it's fantastic and delicious! We loved it so much that we used to sneak out at night to pick up any ripe ones before the rest of the family did. Only problem is we ran into each other as well. The ones that fall down were best.
Me too. We used to go fruit raiding in our Pjs when all was quiet 🤐
Thank you Dan. Never heard of a Feijoa it should be perfect for our Western Washington weather.
in our town in New Zealand, the council plants these trees around town and anyone can grab the fruit when they are ready. We call them feijoa.
We have a feijoa in our backyard.
Got to agree, an unusual plant with the possible exception of New Zealand, where I believe, just about everyone has one on their back yard. And a very unusual but delicious flavour.
Nice video!
I am going to take cuttings and set up a plantation!
Four in my yard, and trees in many other yards around my town. I dog walk and collect them from the neighbourhood on my travels. Can't stand them myself but collect for the family.
@@nzsooz3884 will you adopt me? Im in MO lol
@@VWilt-so3ws Goodness , you really do like feijoas don't you. LOL Sorry we aren't closer otherwise you could have some. 😀👍
You are right they are very popular here. New Zealanders eat vast amounts of them in season. It would be interesting to know why we took them to our hearts when no one else has (and they are not native, being originally fromSouth America I believe)
I have a large feijoa in the backyard here in Melbourne, Australia. Yes, they have lots of fruit to share at work and with family and friends.
Yo.. Do you have Australian wild berries in your garden
My sister who lives in Melbourne, needs your address, being originally from NZ and loving them, she really misses them :)
Wow! I was out for a walk in my North Vancouver 'hood and came across one these fruits hanging over someone's fence. No clue what it was, and now I know. We rarely get lower than -5ºC (23ºF) at the peak of winter. I've remembered the little fruit for years and wondered WTF it could be! Definitely the only one I've seen!
I always thought they were tropical. Guess not.
I hope you asked for a few to start your own!
@@VWilt-so3ws I'm a sad apartment dweller with no garden!
I love your garden.... its so healthy and abundant.👍
Feijoa sellowiana is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. It is native to the highlands of southern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, Uruguay, northern Argentina and Colombia. It is widely grown as an ornamental tree and for its fruit.
thanks Google.
Sounds like my FL Crepe Myrtle but they never got fruit. But I've never grown an easier growing, break a stick, stick in the ground and it'd grow! tree or bush , depends on how you trim it. And so many beautiful colors. They were great!
Mines in a tub as i rent and move alot. Got my first fruit this year 👏🎉🎉 Absolutely stoked. Love them 💜
Well done!
@@plantabundance I just have to keep the dog and birds away from all edibles in my garden. Apparently my Malamute loves bean leaves 😂 And ripe tomatoes. Love your show. Thank you for all the great tips. 💜
I have one of these trees where I live which is 30 minutes north of San Francisco in California.
The previous owner mentioned Pineapple-Guava and the other botanical names. That was many years ago. Since then, no one else who has seen it has ever known what it was. Thank you for the confirmation!
I cut them in half & eat the inside with a spoon. They remind me of Gerber Banana baby food with Pineapple, and they're delicious!
Nice! I also live North of SF by Clear Lake. It never freezes, but can get to and over 100F in summer. Rains only Nov-April. Was wondering if I could plant a Feijoa bush/tree here, so thanks, now I know :) I have just the spot for it , too. Only thing is the spot has dappled sun/shade so I'll need to check if that is ok. And I'll have to find out where I can buy one around here out in the boonies. Maybe Mendo mills
We have a pineapple guava. The birds love them, mainly for the flowers, and it's a good nesting tree that stays small and you can cut them back and shape them a lot. Anyone who wants bird-friendly landscaping should have these.
Yes! I planted a second tree in the chicken run hoping the chickens would be able to roost in it someday. Cheers!
the flowers peddles taste so good , I tired them after seeing the birds eating them. The fruit I am not a fan of.
I don't recall you saying if there needs to be a male and female in order to bear fruit... And how many years for fruit to appear..?
@@kellikelli4413 we have only one and it gets loaded with fruit
@@kellikelli4413 there is a type that self fertilizes so only needs one tree.
Another Kiwi (from New Zealand) if you water plant regularly once flower appears you get a bigger fruit. I often pick from tree as i like them better you can tell if ready as they will fall off in your hand. Great in smoothies, on toast (if you are a savory person sprinkle a little salt or pepper) or on your cereal, porridge. Yum Yum bubblegum.
Originally from South America
Wow thanks! I've been looking for a fruit tree for high desert (we get snow sometimes in the winter and bake in the summer).
Super excited to happen to find this video. I got a pineapple guava tree this past fall and I am excited to try it.
I love pineapple guava which my husband recognized during our walk in the neighborhood (Hayward, CA) ; the fruit was mildly sour but sweet and easy to scoop out the inside (like kiwi fruit). I guess it needs alot of sun to grow.
Kiwi tastes acid when you are able to scoop it, sour when they are picked, i like to peel my kiwi fruit with potato peeler and feijoa, i miss eating them by the bag full.
I’m so excited that you showcased the pineapple guava. I just planted one last week.
Thank you for your wisdom, I LOVE it
Cool. Thanks for posting.
Wish we had the pinnacle guava here. Used it as a hedge in California years ago. Love the plant.
Yes, you have inspired me to purchase a couple plants. I can't wait to care for them.
And please share your cuttings!
pineapple guava
Man, Im really glad to learn about this tree. Beautful garden, my dude.
Thank you! Much appreciated!
Many thanks for illuminating me about a fruit of which I had no previous knowledge. I've ordered some and am looking forward to growing them and eating the obviously delicious fruit.
Where did you order them from?
Beautiful garden!
Thank you!
I did not know about this fruit tree and while investigating it turned out to be native to southern Brazil, northern Argentina called feijoa guava. Living in Argentina I never tasted its fruit, nor have I ever seen it. I'll get it and plant it in the fruit forest.
Same plant - they were all grown from specimens from that region
I'm from Colombia and I remember my neighbor had a Feijoa tree, it's a beautiful tree the flowers are pretty the fruit is delicious. Thank you.... I'm thinking in getting one in New York... Yes, we used to eat the fruits right from the tree.... good memories...
Very cool. Thank you for sharing! Never knew of this 💕
I have 4 varieties of these. I came across an ancient one in a historic town. It wasnt higher than about 4 metres, but the trunk was almost a metre wide.
There's an old variety that produces round fruit and is highly sweet , In nz it's a far north , Olde time tree, . The best , if you keep them well watered and throw some chook muck round them , the fruit is almost tennis ball size . Yum
Sounds GREAT! Take good care of it and hope that it will live a LONG TIME!
You can grow these from cuttings too. I planted a whole hedge once from the pruning's from a friends property. Very successful I saw the hedge which is 20yrs old now last year its huge and I bet a heavy fruiter.
Well done! I bet it was quite satisfying to see that your effort was fully realized. Cheers!
@@plantabundance Indeed I did it because after buying that property I had no money left and a lot of bare dirt cuttings are a great way to grow an orchard, another plant is the Tamarillo fruits very quickly and a great dessert fruit.
@@TheBeaker59 where are those pineapple guava hedges growing? The ones that you'd planted?
@@roberthayes8603 Feijoa's as they are known here in New Zealand are very common and a popular hedge plant they are also popular as a food. This one is in Auckland I won't pinpoint it as someone else onws that property now.
Oh man what a delightful garden. I love feijoa fruit. Your comfrey is magnificent. Greetings from the Netherlands
Pineapple guava make great quick bread!! Yummy !
I've got 8 in the ground so far and 60 potted up ready to go. Can't get enough of them.
I like to tip them everytime they push a new shoot to get a tight bush.
I love the taste and aroma of this fruit! Very fragrant! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
I had a client in Santa Cruz with one of these. Delicious.
He recommended rolling it firmly between your hands to liquefy the inside, cut off one end & slurp it out.
Terrific garden!
Loved this video! You got a new subscriber today. I raise tortoises, and they love fruits, so I am always looking for things I can grow myself.
Thanks for subbing! I bet you have some healthy happy tortoises.
I have four varieties of feijoa (as we call them here in New Zealand), including two new cultivars: Wiki Tu and Unique. They are suited to at least 200 hours of winter chill ( < 12° C ) each season.
And yes, those smoothies.
I bet the insects below were loving the drops you made! 💋💋💋🤣🤣
This is a lovely fruit with such a unique taste.
Fruit of the Gods. My absolute favourite which I'll eat by the bucket load in season. Every house used to have a couple of feijoa trees in NZ. I have 1 which is probably 4 or 5 years old and producing well but I'm planting another in a week or 2.
When we moved to aussie, this was one of the fruit that we missed. We were lucky enought to buy a young plant over here and now we are just waiting for it to fruit. We were also able to grab a Tamarillo tree as well.
I wish! 🥺😔😭
I have orange, mandarin, red apple,green apple, peach and nashi pear...no feijoa for me 😭😭😭😭😭
@@quittrynabemeyouredoingaba6852 mandarin...mmm..that would be nice as well, seedless ones. My wife would love the pear but the peach would be nice as well.
Sir, I have been eating this fruit without knowing the name; You perfectly describe it!
How did you know it was edible?
I am in So Cal and I have one that was planted in 1978...
Great little tree with tastey fruit.
Beautiful Feijoas ! love them.
Yet another fruit tree I would love to have here in Grand Bay, AL zone 8b. I also want a Jujube as well.
Would definitely make a couple great additions to the garden! Cheers!
Can grow in uk pls
Hey, I grew up in Grand Bay! You can grow just about anything there!
Pineapple Guava!i have never heard them called that lol.I have called them feijoa all my life.We have a hedge full of them in NZ.
Beautiful! I love pineapple guava🥰
I grew up in New Zealand and the Fejoa tree was everywhere. And I Love them. Everyone hated them and ripped the trees out. Now it's a very expensive fruit. I now live in Australia and we can only get a grafted version
I have a lot of self sprouting seedlings if you want some. Northern Rivers area
I'm starting a bunch of these in north Florida. They are extremely delicate as seedlings and it seems to take them a long time to get going. They need to be hand tall before they are transplanted. Once they are at that point they seem to be very durable. Here they grow in sand, the winters swing from freezing to really warm, it doesn't rain in the spring or fall, in the summer it's very hot and humid and rains every day.
In N FL too. I have a pair of them in my front yard, trunks thick as my wrist, they flower profusely in the spring, seem to be visited by pollinators and I have done some with a paintbrush, but they have never set fruit. The nursery just says I need to plant a few more. Hmmm.
@@ROTALOT There aren't a lot of them around. It's possible you have two clones that won't cross pollinate. A seedling tree might be what you need. But you can always eat the flowers, they are delicious.
@@nonyadamnbusiness9887 that must be it because from same nursery. I will ask around to see whose is bearing fruit and get ideas from them too. Thanks!
Interesting. It says they dislike high humidity and temps over 90F. That’s Florida! Wonder how they would fair in south MS?
@@MyVisualRomance I have friends around Gainesville with plants that are 10+ feet tall and producing buckets of fruit every year. Find a warm spot, you should be good.
You've actually got dirt to grow them in.
I would love to see a video on purslane. How to use it and what are its qualities.
oh my goodness, I miss the garden, you have such a beautiful place, salute sir, respect
Absolutely LOVE my pineapple Guava tree..have had it for 5 years and it almost always produces great/tasty fruit!!!!!!!!!!! Always wait until the fruit is a bit soft before eating..the flowers have a cinnamon flavor to them!!
Can you put the species in the title or description? It would make your video accessible via google search.
I love eating the flowers! They're so beautiful and taste like floral, musky fondant. I've desired a feijoa for years ... it seems every backyard where I live has one except for mine! Unfortunately several years back biosecurity laws changed and now I can't source one into my state (South Australia). The only ones sold in nurseries are the seedlings that don't grow true to type or produce fruit and the grafted fruit producing ones are no where to be found (except in other people's yards haha).
I learned about this plant some time ago and if you know poeple with them it does quit well from cuting just ask for some of the cut branches when it is trimed in "fall" which is the best time for trimming, I little rooting hormone plastic pots soil and I little care you can have them
@@mystylangston4803 Thank you. Yes, I did ask one of my neighbours for some cuttings but they were uninterested (even offered some of my fig tree cuttings in exchange!). I will have to try and find a house in my neighbourhood with a feijoa overhanging the property line and take a few sneaky cuttings.
@@one4sorrow lol well so sorry for your luck. For myself I just got my first two bushes but the nursery that shipped them were unsure of the type and I want to get early mid and late ones so to have a full 3 months of them, I Am hoping to deduce witch ones they are by when they bloom and how the fruit looks and then look for more.
@@mystylangston4803 Enjoy your feijoa! I hope they grow well for you!!
Get a neighbor to give you cuttings and graft onto a store bought seedling. ;)
Yum! That looks delicious! Kinda looks like a young pawpaw!
The flowers are beautiful🙂
Pineapple guava are amazing good fruits! If you can definitely grow it.
Yep. It's a slow grower that stays small enough and/or can be pruned so that it can be easily covered for added protection.
My neighbor has one that clings over my fence. He never trims or take cares of it (a tall and outgrown tree). I am the one trimming the branches over my side as much as can except the tall ones. Maybe I should consider propagate? My dogs love the fruits though.
I am in zone 9b. This TH-camr is in the Bay Area California.
Thanks for watching! Have a great day!
Thanks brother!
Thanks i love it
I’d love to grow one or more of these trees if I could find somewhere to buy them? I’ve never seen or even heard of them before till now. But I always enjoy trying new or different kinds of plants. Especially plants that have editable fruit or good for breaking up clay! Here where I live in Camas, Washington our growing season is short many times. Temps can drop into even below 15 degrees at times. It’s also very windy here and not too unusual to see winds in the 30-40 mph range if not higher once in a great while! Soil also a huge problem being it’s clay soil. But I have spent literally thousands of dollars bringing in garden soil and adding 8-12” to the ground. Trying to dig more holes and bury chunks of tree trunks and other large branches as well and also do quite a bit of chipping branches and letting the chips just lay on top of the ground. Doing anything I can think of trying to break down the clay soil as much as possible to have a better soil throughout my property. It’s can be a expensive project if trying to add good soil and a very long process trying to amend the soil with burying wood and adding wood chips to break down in the soil as well. I’m learning that there’s also some plants that helps with breaking down clay soil too like comfrey and I’m hoping to get some of those plants and add them to my property as well. Probably won’t get my soil exactly where I want it to be in my lifetime since I’m 65 years old now, but suppose I’ll have a nice start for whoever gets my property in the future and hopefully they’ll take advantage of all the hard work and effort I’ve put into approving the soil here? I’ve got 5 acres as well as my neighbors and so far I’m the only one making a effort to improve the soil and break up all this clay that’s like concrete to work with when it’s dry in the summer! Digging a 2 ft deep ditch 350 ft long to run water down to my garden area by hand using just a shovel was quite the chore and took more weeks then I care of think about. But I finally got it done and sure enjoy having water at the garden now rather then having to drag around 300 ft of garden hoses around everywhere. Make life a lot easier in the long run! Getting older means trying to work smarter and not harder a lot more of a necessity these days. Even bringing in chickens on the land now and letting them free range should help the soil too eventually. Hoping to get the soil where it’s better draining since so many plants need good drainage to grow well. Which I can’t plant now till I get the soil where it does drain much better then it does now! Been working on it over 10 years now and still got a long ways to go to have soil I can count on draining well. Really sucks when you get a rain storm and your property resembles more of a swimming pool then a field! Why I’ve added a lot of garden soil to raise the lower areas with hopes of not having so much standing water. It’s getting better, but it’s a slow process! Maybe one of these days the soil will be good to plant most anything that can handle the temps here and the wind? I hope?
Hi From Vancouver, soil here s more mix of rock and clay etc.. sounds like a neat property you have
@@grey1wa my neighbors describe me as the guy alway working on his property! LOL
If I’m not sleeping, I’m usually out working on the property. Least when the weather is descent. I don’t care for working in the cold nor the rain! But I got plenty of inside projects to do too! Working on putting in a custom curb less shower for my partner since her knees and legs are so bad that she can barely lift her foot off the ground/ floor. I’ve installed showers before, but this is my first curbless shower that perfectly flush with the bathroom floor so you could even roll a wheelchair in the shower if needed! I love a challenge! LOL Take care!
I hope you get it where you want it so you can enjoy the fruits and vegetables of your labor. Seriously good for you. If you ever sell it, please it on to someone who's interested in continuing your love of the land. I have read where weeds like the one you talked about send down deep runners and will help break it up and bring nutrients up towards the top. However the 1 your talking about does go wild and you might regret that. This guy has a video on it. Anyways Bravo and my best to you and your partner. May good earth come soon for you, blessings, vicki
Ps hope the curbless shower works out well also. Your a good man.
Never heard of this fruit!!! Sounds friggin good!! Any tips where to get seeds? Do you ever sell seeds or slips? Or please reccomend a place that does, online, that you trust... thanks Dan!!
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Good to know they can tolerate freezing temperatures
The Feijoa is almost a national tree here in New Zealand. We use them for so many dishes. Kids have them for school lunches. If you walk through our supermarkets, so many products are Feijoa flavoured. They are often used for hedges and the fruit feeds the poor, since you can't eat it all. We give bags of it away. Very tasty fruit
we are in zone 6a are there any cultivars that can handle our temps? thanks
@Plant Abundance, what was that self watering item you took out of the bucket and put around that young tree?
Those fruit are delicious
Love Feijoa!! Most delicious flavour in jam and chocolate. And that aroma!!
I live in New Zealand and feijoa grow very well in our climate. Most people either have their own or have access to trees - their fruit become a staple diet come autumn!! I have one self pollinator which is currently flowering brilliantly (it's late spring down here) esp now since I extended garden bed to include the tree. I love the idea of peeling to eat never tried that but now can't wait! 😋🤤
Thanks for sharing! Are they grown in your local for other reasons as well? i.e, wind block, privacy, ornamental? A peeler is defiantly the way to go if you want to remove the skin. Cheers!
@@plantabundance Hey Dan no worries mate. All of the above, as well as commercial growing and innovation in the above links. Cheers.
Yeah mine here in mid Canterbury are loaded with fruit buds get this year.cant wait 👍
LOL in New Zealand you can't give these away! Every back garden has a tree or two and they are sold for a couple of dollars a bag on road side stalls. We stew them, eat them raw, turn them into wine, make chutney, put them in pies, have them for breakfast, give them away, and when we are fed up with them just leave them to rot on the ground!
We call them feijoas
Never heard of them until now. Send me some plants and I'll pay. Sounds phenomenal.
Sounds like a good survival plant.
Great garden
Lovely 😊
We have one that is about 30 feet tall now, when it flowers looks like the NZ Christmas tree, we don’t do anything for it and it is prolific Penrith Aust
Wow! I only knew them to reach 8-15 feet. Must be beautiful! Cheers!
30 feet? ...how long it takes to get that big? ...i heard few minutes ago that it grows slowly
Unbelievable...I have recently discovered one of these in my new garden here in Italy, and it's just dropped its fruit. The flowers are exquisite looking things but I didn't know you could eat them. You seem to have an enormous garden. Whereabouts are you? That's one sweet patch of well-cared for ground all right. And thanks for reminding me to plant loads of comfrey in the spring. A new garden and vegetable plot needs massive initial input but it's great because it's a blank page, and I can't wait to get going (even though I got all my winter stuff in now). Thanks for your well-made and stimulating videos.
Davvero ce l’abbiamo in Italia? Come si chiama?
Comfrey will take over a garden with runners or stolons it sends out unless you have a barrier to them. I've heard there is a type without stolons, but mine aren't those.
@@robertdouglas8895 bocking 14 is the variety of comfrey you need it's non invasive.
The book you need is Comfrey by Laurence Hills,I met him in the 80,s at his trial ground in Bocking Essex where he ran the HDRA and had 4 allotment plots with the same plantings in each and the one treated with comfrey and companion planting outperformed the other 3by some margin.
what can you do with comfrey?
@@henningbartels6245 Comfrey is called Bone Knit in herbal medicine.
It is also good plant food.
I thank you, Dan. Had never heard of it. Shall look for it.
Thank you for your gardening tips