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Fruit

Custard Apple: Hand pollination of Pink Mammoth and Hillary White. 

Figs: Keep water up and mulch well.

Low chill Stone Fruit: Prune trees.  Apply organic fertiliser with sulphate of potash. 1kg for a mature tree and ½ kg for young trees.

Lychee: Peak water needs.  Cover trees with net for protection from fruit piercing moth, birds and bats.  Fertilise with an organic fertiliser with sulphate of potash, 1kg for a mature tree and ½ kg for young trees.  Harvest only when fruit on the pendant stalk are sweet and full colour.

Mango: Net trees or bag fruit to protect from birds and bats.

Passion-fruit: Apply 1 kg organic fertiliser with sulphate of potash. Keep up the water.

Pawpaw: Apply organic fertiliser with sulphate of potash, 1kg for mature trees and ½ kg for young trees. Apply a copper based spray or leaf microbes for black spot control.

Persimmon: Apply organic fertiliser with sulphate of potash - 1½ kg for mature trees.

Strawberries: Keep well watered to form new runners for next year. December is the time to mark old strawberry plants. Watch for their new runners to develop. This makes it easier to define plants when you are ready for new planting.

Bananas: Keep them watered.

Citrus: Water tree well. Keep up pest oil spray for citrus leaf miner.