Citrus

Organic gardener Kath Irvine returns to share some tips around spring gardening and to answer your questions. This week her topics include building your own compost and ensuring healthy citrus trees.

Sam Tietjen trained in mechanical engineering but has come back to the family orchard and is now overseeing the planting of 2000 avocado trees. Audio

Seventy percent of the national persimmon crop's grown in the Gisborne region. Growers are planting more trees as the export markets look promising. Audio

A Gisborne based exporter, First Fresh, is sending a trial shipment of local persimmons to China within the next week to ten days. It's the first new fruit to gain market access since the NZ-China… Audio

Wi Pere Trust in Gisborne has a mixed portfolio of horticultural crops from kiwifruit to oranges, mandarins, grapes and persimmons. The Trust is looking at expanding its citrus because of market… Audio