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BessieBear 
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 9:33am |
  12kgs to be exact. I can't keep up with them. I'm in Hamilton if you want some I'm home all day.  I can PM my address.
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 10:09am |
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Ohhh I love feijoas lol why can't I live near Hamilton?!!!!! They make great bread!!
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 10:43am |
 I can only eat them as they are. My mum has 4 tress full and tried to give me jars of jeijoa relish and jam.
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 10:47am |
yeah I think I'd feel the same way bout relish and jam!! The bread is actually really yummy though but then I like zuchinni bread too haha so I might have weird taste 
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 10:55am |
OMG YUM. 12kgs!?!!! I haven't had a feijoa in 4 years  I did find a cafe here that sells Phoenix juices (!) and they very occasionally have the feijoa and apple one. Yum yum yum.
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 11:01am |
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Oooo wish I lived in hamilton! I miss them so much, the ones we get down here are always so tiny and crappy!
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 11:33am |
I didn't think any one had them down south. It's too cold for them to grow properly.
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 11:37am |
I'm tempted to put them out on the footpath to see if someone will take them off my hands. They are still falling from my tree's so I have plenty.
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 11:39am |
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Put them out with an honesty box - $1 for 6 feijoas or something :)
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 11:49am |
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Yeah we do get them down here, but like you said it is cooler, so its definately harder for them to grow! plus not many people down here seem t olike them must be a north islander thing! hehe seen as i was born up there.
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 11:50am |
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My neighbours trees are the same - they have a hedge of about 10 trees (and don't eat feijoas). On Friday I collected a whole banana box full to take to work with a whole heap of plastic bags - so everyone who wanted could take a big bag home. Could you send some to work with DH? Or yeah put them out the front of your house with a sign saying 'Free feijoas, help yourself'... I'm sure you have neighbours who would love them!
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 12:11pm |
They're out on the lawn, it's funny watching people drive past and have a good gork but keep driving.
They are big too I took a photo the othe day, my first leomn off our tree a feijoa and an orange and the lemon was the smallest.
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 12:32pm |
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OMG sooo jelious, i am absolutly mad about feijoas, DH laughs at me and my obsesson. haha the thought of a road trip came to mind but hmmmmm i dont think DH would like that idea and i dont really have the time.
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 1:06pm |
Haha jem yeah I've been tossing up the idea of a road trip all morning but I just can't figure out how to justify it  'but hunny I had a craaaavvviiiing...'...
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 1:15pm |
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I waaaaaaaaaaaaant some.
Did you put them on the lawn with a sign, Sarah? Or just in the bucket? LOL. I can't believe people are just looking but not taking them.. are they crazy?!
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 1:20pm |
oh we have fejoas comming out our ears too!!! im been making fejoa muffins/cupcakes with them! and my 2 kids who hate fejoas are none the wiser and am loving them!! lol
I also have an abundance of cider apples!!! 
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 1:26pm |
Now apples I could do something with. Why do I have 2 tree's of feijoa's and none of apples.
Well some lady cam and grabbed some, but the rest are still sittting out there.
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 1:35pm |
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I am soo jealous!! I love them and my Mum ripped out her 6 trees to put in a vege garden - was so gutted.
I have a tree but have only just planted it so it hasn't fruited (?) yet.
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 1:42pm |
Im feijoa overloaded also!! I live in Otorohanga- closer south than Hamilton 
I made Jam over the weekend, a cake this morning & have used over 10kg for my wine. (let me know if anyone want the recipe- its so good & so dangerous )
Given bags away, DP has taken some to work, I have taken some to PC & the local op shop.
And they are still falling
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Posted: 04 May 2009 at 2:09pm |
Hey, now now glow. I was in first.
How long would they last in the post?? My mum used to post lemon's to her parents in wellington from here. lol
Yeah there in the bucket on the lawn, we don't have a fence and our section is raised slighly so you'd see them.
I still have some inside that wouldn't fit in the bucket and they're today's ones a bit hard still.
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Feijoa surplus.
