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25.01.2022 Getting some nice healthy male flowers that are producing good quantities of clean pollen.

22.01.2022 To all you devotees and disciples of the 'Botanic' cult Julimar Date Garden, the new season has well and truly commenced. Good yields of clean pollen and flowers on all varieties of date palms continues. Let's believe the fruit of our labours will be rewarding.

18.01.2022 As more palms mature and fruit production improves significantly with each season, it's time to commence Stage 2 of the project. These are our architects concept sketches of an idea I came up with, when I was in the Middle East in 2018. He too spent a number of years working in Oman and has based his design on the Bedouin tent. Sorting room / shop front with the tent facade. Pending Shire approval, another new chapter for the business begins...

17.01.2022 The last six weeks has been bloody hard work but next week should see the completion of the pollination process. All five varieties have put out some good flowers this year. Fingers crossed, we will get good fruit sets. Now I can concentrate on hazard reduction for awhile and knock some of that long grass down.

13.01.2022 Prior to the availability of tissue culture stock, the enormous cost of importing sufficient palms from North Africa / Arabia put date growing way out of reach of the average potential grower. Tissue culture made the acquisition of date palms very affordable. The downside of tissue culture was their initial frailty and a lead in time of around ten years before you could expect to see fruit. The upside of the story was, those tissue culture plants produced offshoots and tho...se offshoots were born and bred into local conditions. They are vigorous growers and produce fruit in a fraction of the time of their parent stock. The two Medjool offshoots seen in the foreground of the first pic, were planted in April 2018. The remaining pics are of the middle offshoot taken today. Both of the offshoots are carrying fruit of good size and condition... See more

12.01.2022 Regardless of the current situation with Covid-19 and Regional movement restrictions, the production of fresh dates continues. To those folks in the Wheatbelt Region (Chittering, Toodyay and Avon Valley etc), you can still purchase fresh dates direct from the farm. To those in the Perth Region, we can take your order by phone for pickup in Perth. We still have... supplies of fresh Khadrawy dates in stock, with more on the way. Our Medjool and Barhee dates will soon be available. Owing to the current situation, we have reduced the price of all dates to $20 per kg. A healthy, nutritious food source, that will keep for sometime refrigerated. Stay safe everyone... See more

09.01.2022 Just started harvesting late last week with Nagal and Khadrawy. The last two days of picking have produced over 20 kg of some nice looking dates and I haven't even begun to scratch the surface of what's still hanging on the palms. That doesn't include the Medjool and Barhee, of which there are far more of but they still need a little more time to ripen. Might have to get the missus to give up one of her night jobs, so she can give me a hand the way things are going. If not this year, then most definitely next... I was just kidding about the bride giving up one of her night jobs...she can keep them all! Aren't I generous?

09.01.2022 We currently have supplies of Khadrawy dates available for sale, with more on the way. They are a beautiful date, soft and very sweet. Under this current social situation, we have decided as of today to reduce the price to $20 per kilo but that is pick up from the farm only. Pick up from Perth will be at the usual $30 per kilo... A healthy nutritious food source that will keep refrigerated.

09.01.2022 First pick of khalal Barhee dates for 2020.

08.01.2022 We have some quite healthy bunches of fruit growing this season...

04.01.2022 Early male flowers have begun to yield promising amounts of new pollen. These three flowers delivered about 40 grams. Around $5k to $7k a kilo, it's a precious commodity for date production. I have attempted to maximise the removal of as much as the super fine pollen as I can and yet the bees go crazy for what still remains on the discarded flowers. Too bad they aren't attracted to the female flowers.

04.01.2022 This season we have been experimenting and refining our pollination technique. Results so far have been very pleasing and have been fortunate to attain a 90 to 95% strike rate with our Khadrawy variety. We are still to assess our remaining varieties but so far, things look extremely encouraging.

01.01.2022 This is one of two home grown Medjool offshoots. They have only been in the ground two years and both have three very healthy flowers ready for pollination.