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Friday 23rd March, 2012

Golden Queens Anyone???

Hi

Get Bottling

The lady from across the road drove into the garden centre the other day with a box load of peaches from her tree.  There are heaps of them and they need using she tells us, so go and help yourself!  Harry trots off to have a look and decides that there were quite a few peaches to spare and tells Pete ( Dad in the cottage) to help himself as well. No sooner said than Pete was over there grabbing a few buckets along with Harry and it's all go bottling peaches. I watched Mum bottle fruit for years while we were kids. My recollections were of boxes of fresh fruit from the orchards and Packham pears on newspaper ripening off till just the right ripeness for bottling. Mum had it down to a fine art but I have never actually done any myself until now. It's really very easy, (helped by youthful recollections) but just takes time. So Monday evening was spent peeling and slicing up a box lot of Golden Queens!!  Where do they get all these names?   We ended up with thirteen large Agee special jars, sitting on the bench, looking pretty damn cool.

               

 

The Keys to Great Peaches

I have to say that there is nothing quite like the flavour of fresh fruit grown by yourself or at least collected from plants that you know. Then you really know what you're eating and it's so easy to grow your own fruit. Peaches, tree ripened have a flavour that you just never forget and so they are worth growing. The secret to these, is to prune to form an open tree that allows plenty of air movement. Don't plant them where it's excessively windy as the blossom stage is very sensitive but certainly plenty of air movement will help prevent fungal infections of all types. Well drained soil with plenty of organic matter supplied in an area under the tree, not up against the trunk, but out to the drip line so that the tree gets plenty of food. I would also recommend copper and oil sprays in the winter but specially one prior to flower bud burst. Copper will also help combat curly leaf but a light infection looks more unsightly than anything else. Collect fallen leaves and fruit with rot and remove from the situation and this will get rid of spores that could rerinfect.
At the end of the day it's a lot like people, Plenty of sleep, good food and not too much alcohol ??? mean that on the whole we don't get sick and plants are the same.  Well fed, plenty of available water, good air movement and removal of bad leaves etc will on the whole result in plenty of fruit. You just need to look around as you drive and see all the peaches on trees on the side of the road with heaps of fruit and my guess is all they get is plenty of air movement.

Peaches

Click here for the Peaches page, Remaining this years stock just $20 per plant otherwise pre order for July

Click here for How to on Peach trees

I have been buying Flatto peaches from the supermarket and do they ever taste good but you can now grow your own and this is the best time of year for planting Last year we had sweet cap, we now have Peach flatto sweet bonnet and the Nectarine Flatto button bright as well... Click here

MUST HAVES Click here

Tree Dahlias Dahlia Imperalis Hybrids

Years ago we used to have these amazing plants for sale, well the old fashioned one anyways with mauve lilac flower. Now there is a selection of five new hybrids from the breeding programme of Dr Hammett These plants are in our must haves this week and do best in a well drained spot relatively free from frosts. We always managed to get the Tree Dahlia to flower here in Gordonton esp if the frost came later in the season

Gentians, a must have for those that love striking  blue flowers. An awesome perennial like plant that likes a cool root run and has intense blue tubular flowers

Flowable copper Click here for organic gardening

Copper oxychloride has been used forever as a preventative for fungal infections and works by creating a protective barrier over the leaf that stops the spores from germinating. This liguid form of copper is better to use that the traditional powdered form meaning that it mixes with water easier and tends not to settle and clog sprayers. Commonly been used with oil or for those that prefer Neem Oil, there is a school of thought out there, that these deterrents are best applied separately for maximum effectiveness. Well so my learned friend and colleague Chris tells me!!!  The best part is that its a fungal spray allowed by those that prefer to garden without chemical sprays.

Lilacs or Syringas. I see that Teresa has been busy finding us these to have again this year. Last year we sold out so if you want to pre order some now is the time to do it and be in first. Dont forget if you want us to flick you an email when a certain rose is in stock again then get in touch by either ordering online or contact us at sales@wairere.co.nz

We are off to the Melbourne flower show next weekend and are so looking forward to it. Cant wait to catch up with those going at the airport. Perhaps our first beer/wine together LOL... well maybe we should settle for champers being so early in the morn. Its always 10 am somewhere in the world. Hehe !

Dont forget that we still have 25% of all roses and all remaining peach trees are all just $20 each.

Have a great weekend if wee don't see you at the nursery

Cheers, Lloyd and Harry

Make it a Wairere weekend where gardenings not a drag

Wairere Nursery
826 Gordonton Road, RD 1, Hamilton
07 824 34 30
www.wairere.co.nz

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2012 Newsletters...

Rhubarb Pie (27th January, 2012)

Plums and more plums (4th February, 2012)

Projects and Roses (10th February, 2012)

Lily of the Nile (17th February, 2012)

Apples and Hedges (23rd February, 2012)

Hedges and Zucchini Cake (2nd March, 2012)

Camellias as Hedges (9th March, 2012)

Swan Plants and Blueberries (23rd March, 2012)

..... Peaches and Tree Dahlias

Autumn Tree Sale (6th April, 2012)

Rhodos and Azaleas (20th April, 2012)

Feijoa'd Out (27th April, 2012)

Roses n Lemons (4th May, 2012)

Copper n Oil (11th May, 2012)

Small Fruits (18th May, 2012)

The big pot is on (26th May, 2012)

Roses R Us (15th June, 2012)

Tree fetish (15th June, 2012)

Cloning Trees (22nd June, 2012)

Pruning (29th June, 2012)

Planting (6th July, 2012)

On the Move (15th July, 2012)

Lilacs (20th July, 2012)

Lilacs (20th July, 2012)

Grapes (2nd August, 2012)

Campanulatas (17th August, 2012)

Spuds for Xmas (25th August, 2012)

Bee time (31st August, 2012)

Downy Mildew (8th September, 2012)

Best In Show (14th September, 2012)

Flower Power (28th September, 2012)

Cherries Again (5th October, 2012)

Update the garden (12th October, 2012)

Hedges lavs and lilies (19th October, 2012)

Snowballs and Pointed Leaves (26th October, 2012)

Toms, Veg and Pinks (2nd November, 2012)

Lemon and passionfruit slice (6th November, 2012)

Lavenders (9th November, 2012)

Trees and more (16th November, 2012)

Roses are gorgeous (23rd November, 2012)

Dogwoods and Prezzies (30th November, 2012)

Passionfruit and Tamarillos (7th December, 2012)

Christmas Lilies (21st December, 2012)

Merry Xmas (21st December, 2012)

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