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HARDY PLANTS

Harvesting Feijoa guavas

From mid-October to mid-November, Feijoa guavas (Acca Sellowiana) ripen and fall on their own. You don’t pick them, you gather them from under the tree.

The Feijoa guava tree has evergreen foliage and forms a ball about 3 meters high.
A guava tree about 12 years old. It blooms in June and fruits in October.
Native to Uruguay, southern Brazil and Argentina, the Feijoa guava tree keeps its foliage throughout the winter and is frost-resistant to at least -12 C.
No treatment required, no pruning, just water and sun. On the other hand, it fears snow, which accumulates on the leaves and bends the branches until they break. For a good harvest, it is essential to shake off the branches as soon as more than 3 to 4 centimetres of snow fall.
For trees planted on slopes, boards stop the fruit to facilitate harvesting.
The fruit can remain on the ground untouched for several days, as the birds don’t touch it.
Depending on the season, an adult plant will produce 20 to 40 kilos of fruit.
Fruits vary greatly in size. Older plants produce larger fruit.
Guavas are eaten fresh.
Straight to the picker.
The taste is exotic, really delicious.
They can also be dried for 8 hours at 70 degrees Celsius.
At the end of the harvest period, at the beginning of November, it had already snowed at the top, above 2000 meters.
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