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VEG

  • Joined Jan 2014
  • Maesteg South Wales
Fruit trees due in to aldi again this thursday
« on: February 01, 2015, 02:33:00 pm »
As in the title a range of fruit trees due in on I think thursday. I bought a load last year and will get more this year at £3.99 cant go wrong.

VEG

  • Joined Jan 2014
  • Maesteg South Wales
Re: Fruit trees due in to aldi again this thursday
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2015, 09:39:16 pm »
Picked up another 6 for my expanding orchard they really are good looking trees.

Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: Fruit trees due in to aldi again this thursday
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2015, 09:44:24 pm »
Lots in Tescos today too, that looked pretty good, albeit a bit more expensive at £8 each.

The apples included 'Discovery', which is a lovely variety.
"All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once." -Terry Pratchett

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Fruit trees due in to aldi again this thursday
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2015, 10:22:07 pm »
Ooh, I love Discovery. I have one already but could manage to eat more. I don't have space for full size trees though. All mine are on dwarf rooting stock.

Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: Fruit trees due in to aldi again this thursday
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2015, 10:02:56 am »
Discovery are my favourite apples too, so a nicely shaped tree *may* have inadvertantly fallen into my shopping basket yesterday without me noticing.

There aren't any details on the rootstock or even pollination group. However, it does say final height 10ft, which must make it an M26 or similar?
"All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once." -Terry Pratchett

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Fruit trees due in to aldi again this thursday
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2015, 10:32:08 pm »
Really? Feet not metres? I think I need to go shopping. Are they bare-rooted or in pots?

Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: Fruit trees due in to aldi again this thursday
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2015, 11:05:37 pm »
Bare rooted, just the same as the Aldi ones.  You may have to rummage to find a good one, but there were plenty in Tesco Extra in Perth on Friday.
"All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once." -Terry Pratchett

NicandChic

  • Joined Oct 2013
Re: Fruit trees due in to aldi again this thursday
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2015, 11:34:56 pm »
We bought plumb, pear, apple & cherry trees in pound stretchers today £5.99 per tree, bare root, at least 6ft each! Ayr branch!....pardon the pun  :innocent:

Bramblecot

  • Joined Jul 2008
Re: Fruit trees due in to aldi again this thursday
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2015, 09:05:15 pm »
Small fruit trees in Lidl today named varieties of apples, pears, cherries, plums. £3.99

VEG

  • Joined Jan 2014
  • Maesteg South Wales
Re: Fruit trees due in to aldi again this thursday
« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2015, 07:21:18 pm »
Well all the trees i planted have started to leaf up some in flower as well

Steph Hen

  • Joined Jul 2013
  • Angus Scotland.
Re: Fruit trees due in to aldi again this thursday
« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2015, 08:42:41 am »
I got three lidl ones and they're leafing up a treat  :)

cloddopper

  • Joined Jun 2013
  • South Wales .Carmarthenshire. SA18
Re: Fruit trees due in to aldi again this thursday
« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2015, 07:42:36 pm »
Taking of saplings etc be prepared to get some fleece or a white sheet over the saplings if they are in flower , if the temp in your area is forecast to drop to 3 oC or below.
 As that's when ice starts to form , by 0 oC it is fully solid and the damage will have been done in most case if the low temp has existed for more than two & a half hours .

four years ago  I purchased two four year old Aldi Russet apple trees  ( now in full bloom & partly pollinated ) and two Aldi four year old Victoria plum trees.

 True to form the apple trees have started to show serious blossom after the seventh year .. the plums have yet to decide what they are going to do


I got two of each saplings for my experience has made me understand that a self pollinating tree is not always such an item .

 In a couple of years time Ii will also try my hand at grafting some 9 inch  long sicons  between each variety so that if there is a slight time lag in them both blossoming there should be the best chance of things being able to be pollinated
Strong belief , triggers the mind to find the way ... Dyslexia just makes it that bit more amusing & interesting

VEG

  • Joined Jan 2014
  • Maesteg South Wales
Re: Fruit trees due in to aldi again this thursday
« Reply #12 on: May 17, 2015, 06:48:09 pm »
Most of the trees in flower have been covered in bees so i dont think pollination will be a problem here.

 

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