{"product_id":"feijoa-white-goose-acca-sellowiana","title":"Feijoa - Acca sellowiana White Goose","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhite Goose is a named feijoa for a sunny corner of the home orchard or a large tub: an upright bush that opens the feijoa season early and puts on a late spring show of edible flowers first. Feijoa itself is an evergreen shrub from southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina, with thick oval leaves, dull green above and pale, silvery and felted beneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhite Goose ripens from about March into April, ahead of most feijoas, and is grown for large, green skinned fruit with very sweet, smooth, soft and juicy flesh around a translucent, jelly like centre, carrying the perfumed flavour feijoas are known for. Most people halve them and scoop the flesh out with a spoon. Before that come the flowers, fleshy petals white on the back and dark pink inside around a tight brush of red stamens, and the petals are sweet enough to eat straight off the bush.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA second feijoa still pays\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhite Goose is at best partially self fruitful, so it crops far more heavily, with larger fruit, when a different variety flowers nearby. Treat a second variety planted within a few metres as part of the plan; the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/fruit-trees\"\u003eFruit Trees\u003c\/a\u003e collection is the place to find a partner. Birds are the main pollinators, eating the sweet petals and carrying pollen as they move between bushes, while bees visit but do far less. In a small garden with few birds about, moving pollen between the two bushes with a soft paintbrush on a dry morning lifts the set noticeably. \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/growing-fruit-trees-in-australian-backyards\"\u003eGrowing fruit trees in Australian backyards\u003c\/a\u003e covers pollination partners and spacing across a whole home orchard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eClimate, fruit fly and summer water\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeijoa is a cool to warm temperate fruit. Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and the tablelands all suit it, and an established plant takes frosts of several degrees below zero. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/black-genoa-fig-tree-ficus-carica-black-genoa\"\u003eBlack Genoa Fig Tree\u003c\/a\u003e wants much the same districts and the same full sun, so the two sit well together in a mixed home orchard. The real threat to a crop is fruit fly. In the east, Queensland fruit fly lays into feijoas readily, and in Perth and the south west of Western Australia, Mediterranean fruit fly does the same. Where either is present, put exclusion netting or fruit bags on soon after fruit set, while the fruit is still small and hard, hang traps from spring, and pick up every windfall, because fruit left to rot on the ground breeds the next generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive it full sun and soil that drains, enriched with compost and mulched, with the mulch kept back from the stems. The crop depends on summer water. A settled feijoa survives dry spells, but a dry late summer costs fruit size, so soak the root zone deeply each week through that stretch if rain fails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAs a small tree, a hedge or a tub plant\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeft alone it becomes a dense, multi stemmed shrub. To train a small tree, pick one leader in the first year and lift the canopy gradually. It will take clipping as a hedge, but every spring trim costs flowers, and so fruit. Its habit is upright, so in a large tub of 50 litres or more on a sunny terrace a yearly prune after harvest keeps it in scale, along with a quality potting mix, regular water and a feed each spring. In the ground, use a fruit tree and citrus fertiliser in late winter and again in early summer, keeping nitrogen moderate so the plant flowers rather than just making leaf. Pick up fallen fruit every morning; it bruises easily and keeps about a week in the fridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 5L, at $94.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/hedging-plants-for-australian-conditions\"\u003ehedging plants for Australian conditions\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"5L","offer_id":67672434442609,"sku":null,"price":94.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/feijoa-white-goose-acca-sellowiana.jpg?v=1791525608","url":"https:\/\/plantdrop.com.au\/products\/feijoa-white-goose-acca-sellowiana","provider":"Plant Drop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}