We’re really excited to have
recently been asked to write a guide to growing food in urban areas
(backyards, schools, community gardens and apartment gardens) in the
Illawarra. The guide will be published as part of the Illawarra
Biodiversity and Local Food Strategy for Climate Change project, a joint
sustainability project involving Wollongong, Shellharbour and Kiama
Councils working together with funding from the NSW Government’s
Environmental Trust.
It will have sections on designing and
maintaining veggie gardens and food forests, as well as lots of
gardening hints and tips, and lovely stories and photos of people
growing food locally in all sorts of different places.
As part of the guide we’re creating a
‘top ten’ list of fruit trees, herbs and veggies to grow in urban
environments. And we’d love you’re help! If you had to recommend ten
fruit trees for growing on the coast in a subtropical/temperate climate,
what would they be? So far our top ten, based on being relatively easy
to grow and producing abundant harvests would probably be:
- Citrus (all types!)
- Banana (Williams Cavendish)
- Pawpaw
- Peach
- Hawaiian Guava
- Cherimoya
- Jaboticaba
- Persimmon
- Mulberry
- Olive
UPDATE - Sooo....in trying to take into account everyone's super helpful comments, and realising that it's probably a bit cheeky to include the whole citrus family as one fruit tree (though that certainly helped us fit more in our top ten!), our revised top ten list is, in no particular order:
- Orange
- Mandarin
- Banana (Williams Cavendish)
- Pawpaw
- Macadamia
- Hawaiian Guava
- Cherimoya
- Passionfruit
- Persimmon
- Mulberry
Thanks so much for your help everyone
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