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I never knew we had a feijoa tree until a friend of mine wandered around our backyard last year and saw this small tree, when he saw it was out of season so the last of the fruits were already rotting on the ground or had been consumed by the birds. This means I have to wait for a full year before it bears fruits again, today the day of the year has come and it’s harvesting time. I never seen a small tree bore fruit that much, for a 6 foot tree in my approximate it bore around 30-40 kilos of fruits and 85% of them we in good state. The first time I tried that fruit from my tree I was surprised as it was the sweetest feijoa I ever had tried so I shared most of them to friends and officemates but left some for my own.
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