Feijoas - Origins, Cultivation and Uses
Feijoas - Origins, Cultivation and Uses
Format: 252 x 190 mm, 88 pages, full colour, paperback with flaps, approx 95 colour photographs
A complete guide to growing feijoas, from history of the fruit to processed products and recipes endorsed by HortResearch and NZ Feijoa Growers’ Association well illustrated and packed with information on cultivar selection, orchard establishment, soil and temperature requirements, tree growth and pruning, nutrition and irrigation, and harvesting and storage.
This book brings together the cumulative knowledge of scientists at HortResearch, who have been at the forefront of research and development into the fascinating and ever-popular plant. Subjects covered include cultivars and their identification, pollination, pruning and training, disease and pest control, harvest maturity, post-harvest handling and even processing, including previously unpublished data from New Zealand-based research on fruit production and storage.
Feijoas: Origins, Cultivation & Uses is an essential guide for growers wishing to produce premium quality fresh feijoas for export and for the local market. Others, such as nurserymen, students, researchers and horticulturists, who have an interest in feijoas and the cultivation of different fruit crops will also find this book useful.
GRANT THORP has worked with HortResearch since 1980 and during that time he was involved in research into a diverse range of subtropical fruit crops, including kiwifruit, avocados, persimmons, citrus, tamarillos and cherimoyas, but feijoas were always his favourite. His research interests cover all aspects of production, from breeding and propagation to pruning systems and pre-harvest factors affecting post-harvest fruit quality. He lives in Auckland.
ROD BIELESKI also lives in Auckland and grew up with feijoas growing in the garden at his home. He has had a long career as a research scientist, specialising in plant mineral nutrition, sugar physiology of plants and their fruits, and flower physiology and storage. He was director of the DSIR Division of Horticulture and Processing from 1980 to 1988.