Ngā Puāwai Orchard

03/09/2026

Frost nailed our tamarillos. Proper nailed - or so we thought.

Root balls are looking healthy and showing signs of adventitious growth. Will stop digging them out and give them a chance to grow. If they don't confirm life by end of September, then we call it.

02/09/2026

This is a great reel on the impacts of pruning.

11/08/2026

The 4 d's of pruning - cool short reel.

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05/08/2026

Today's harvest was brought to you by Jack Frost.
Barely 1c by the time we started work.
-3c with wind chill at 6am today.
The show goes on.

22/07/2026

Panoramic start to this years harvest.

Select picking for size (> 75mm) and removing juicing fruit to ease demand on the trees.

30/06/2026

🥶 Bit chilly this morning, dropping to 1.3c with windchill.

No immediate damage ro the tams unlike the last one. Sprayed 36hrs prior with a thermomax, hydrolysed fish biostim and seaweed foliar to boost endothermic processes in the plant - or we just got lucky.

Will know more in a few days if the leaves start purpling.

30/06/2026

Halmus chalybeus, commonly known as the steelblue ladybird.

A free worker who chows down on whitefly, scale and mites.

Never seen this many on one tree, let alone one leaf!

29/06/2026

And so it begins, harvest 2026/27.

Select picking large fruit and juicing fruit (not cosmetically acceptable for market) this week to clean up trees and ease nutrient demands prior to flower bud generation.

Fruit coming to supermarket shelves via MG Group; juice via the award winning The Limery.

23/06/2026

Not sure its spring yet, but this tamarillo does.
Winter solstice was only 3 days ago.

19/06/2026