The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Fruit => Topic started by: Bury Lad on March 30, 2010, 12:06:38 am
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Are these bargain fruit trees any good? there seems to be a lot of budget stores selling these trees at the moment just wondered if anyone had bought any last year with good results?....or is the first year too early to tell?
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I've bought them a few times - when I built my house in Aberdeenshire the budget was getting tight and I was allowed the VAT back on landscaping including plants so I went on a shopping spree at Morrisons down the road and planted out the whole garden(half an acre) including 4 apple and 2 plum trees for £70, got £14 of that back from the nice VAT man, and a good few apples in the first year. When I sold it 2 years later there were 25 apples and 5 plums.
When I moved down here 2 years ago I planted some more and they had teensy wee apples last summer, so maybe I'll get some better ones this year (provided the roots don't get waterlogged again with this weather).
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We bought them from Aldi last year and planted a small orchard! they are all growing well apart from 1, we bought some fruit bushes this year too, fantastic value for money go for it!
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Cheers chaps, i was thinking of growing them in large pots, i heard that way encourages more fruit because of the restriction of the root bowl dont know if its true or not.
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you may want to spend a bit more and get a really dwarfing verity.