How to grow Guavas in a garden
If you’re looking for something different to grow, try guava (Psidium guajava)! Their deliciously sweet, sour, or tangy fruit are perfect for eating fresh, made into jams, smoothies, or desserts. And, the trees are generous when it comes to fruiting, so there will certainly be no shortage!
They grow best in sub-tropical to tropical areas, although the cherry guava (Psidium cattleyanum) can be grown in warm temperate zones (check your label before buying). Guavas also make attractive feature trees and can be used as a hedging screen or grown in large pots.
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How to grow Guavas in a garden
- Choose a sunny spot with well-drained soil. Enrich the soil with Dynamic Lifter Organic Plant Food. If the soil is clay-based, add gypsum and fork in the well.
- Dig the planting hole twice as wide and to the same depth as the root ball. Remove the plant from the container, gently tease the roots and cut away any circled or tangled roots.
- Position in hole and backfill with soil, gently firming down. Form a raised doughnut-shaped ring of soil around the outer edge of the plant's root zone. This helps keep water where it's needed. Always water in well after planting to settle the soil around the roots and keep the soil moist for several weeks while the new plant establishes.
- Mulch around the base with organic mulch like bark chips, woodchip, or pea straw, keeping it away from the trunk.
- Water deeply, once or twice a week, depending on weather conditions.
- During the growing and flowering/fruiting season, feed with Citrus & Fruit Granular Plant Food.
Throughout the year, apply Fish Blood & Bone Plant Food Concentrate.
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How to grow a Guava in a pot
- Choose a pot at least 600mm wide. Position in full sun and fill with quality potting mix, such as Potting Mix.
- Remove the plant from the container, gently tease the roots and cut away any circled or tangled roots.
- Position in pot and backfill with potting mix, gently firming down. Water in well.
- Water deeply, once or twice a week, depending on weather conditions.
- During the growing and flowering/fruiting season, feed with Citrus Liquid Plant Food.
Throughout the year, apply Fish Blood & Bone Plant Food Concentrate.
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Birds
Small pecks in fruit.
Solution
Net the tree to prevent with bird-netting or similar.
Thrips
Fruit develop roughened areas and become hard. Leaves silver and dehydrated.
Solution
Unique organically certified pyrethrum and plant-based oil combination insecticide, with twin modes of action against garden pests.
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