Growing Feijoas in the UK

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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  October 2020

  I take it these are what I know as guavas - highly perfumed, luscious tasting fruit.
  
  If so I shall order a shrub for my birthday next month.

  Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
  

  "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."

  Plato
  

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• maggers.kiwi Posts: 4

  October 2020

  davidtys1au82TqXa said:

  I've had a good harvest this year... I pick them off the grass when they fall. 

  well done you, I really miss them as well being a kiwi living on Wales 
  

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• tui34 Posts: 3,493

  October 2020

  @erintansy.benham    and all other kiwis and Feijoa growers in the UK - I live in the South of France where summers are hot and dry and winters are cold and bitter with strong winds coming off the  mountains, some frosts and sometimes snow.  I have had a tree for nigh on 20 years.   I have to keep it well watered in the summer months when it flowers (like the pohutakawa flower- aah) and I get small fruit now - autumn.  We had giant fruit in NZ but I suppose it is lack of humidity here or maybe the soil, but I am surely glad that I can have a taste of home each year. I am sure if you find a tree and a good spot, you will be rewarded.  The best of luck in your quest.
  Tui

  A good hoeing is worth two waterings.
  
  

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