The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Fruit => Topic started by: Slavo on February 08, 2011, 04:04:32 pm
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For less than a fiver each. I believe it is from Thursday but do check their website.
Hope this helps some of you looking.
John
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Thanks for that John. :)
Was down there this morning - good looking trees for the price and a good selection.
I came away with 2 types of eating apple, 2 cherries, and a peach! Think I'm going to have to keep them in the greenhouse for now.
I also got 3 x 6 herb plug packs - early I know but I couldn't resist, and 6 fruit bushes.
All for £30! At least it's a nice day for me to plant everything on ;D
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Thanks for the tip off John,
I called in to the Aldi near work first thing this morning. I got 12 trees as I have a large area that was once an orchard and now only has one apple tree in it. I also noticed the same selection of trees in poundstrecher today but they were £2 dearer.
I now need to ask the fruit experts how to set out an orchard!
Buffy
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Tesco also have fruit trees for £7
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i bought a couple of bramleys seedling from aldi last year to train as espaliers, theyve done really well,i didnt let them set fruit for the first year. i bought a couple more last week, a coxs orange pippin and a morello cherry. they also stock a living salad mix for about 60p i split the pack and planted them up theyve taken fine. a nice cheap and easy way to get some early salads in. tescos dont get a penny of my money, they can make do with the 1 in 7 pounds of the british economy they get!! >:(
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just to add...
went to focus today - huge tall fruit trees, pot price £9:99. charged at till £8:99 - it was abit tall for my ford fiesta (boot full of groceries) but I curled it in gently!
bought a Stella cherry, to companion the one I have that did naff all last year!
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Morrissons got some small, but healthy looking fruit trees for £5 & some native hedging for £2 at the mo :wave:
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lidl have got 2 fruit trees for £8, so tempted cos quite thick branch/trunk.
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Give it a go PP
All 3 of the crab apples I got from Morrissons for £5 each the other week have braved the weather & are budding-up ok :wave:
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couldnt see any trees at my local-ist Morrisons ...might go back to Focus & see if there's any plum trees :)
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I bought the 2 cherry trees for £8 from Lidl, they seem nice strong tress shouldn't take long to branch out.
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The 2 fruit bushes I bought from Homebase aren't happy - the gooseberry had a few leaves on but they're not doing well now planted, and the loganberry or tayberry (forget which it was) lost the few it had and now looks like a dead twig :(
I need a couple more rasps somewhere so could pick up replacements for these but sometimes cheap ones aren't so cheap - or maybe it's just my care ???
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We had not a bad ratio with the cheap trees, I buy them anywhere, Aldi, Lidl, Morrisons. Usually 1 out of 4 doesn't make it but that could be our soil which gets waterlogged in the winter...Need another dark plum this year. The only grievance was an ornamental crab aple which I know 100% I did not buy!
Ellie, did your shrubs look healthy when you bought them? :&>
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Altogether I bought;
1 Whitebeam
3 Rowanberry
4 Crab Apples
2 Willow
1 something with no label
Total spend £34
& they're all getting leaves ;D
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I just got 6 fruit bushes for £4 at poundland - no idea how they'll do but they have shoots already. The rasps I replanted along the fence I had put up last year haven't sprouted so i think I left them out of the ground too long. They were a bit too thorny anyway. Anybody ever killed rasps before ;) ::)
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Only you Annie ;) ;D
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Well I didn't like them anyway - horrid little sour things, and only 3 or 4 have survived out of 20 so I did well! ;)
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Well, I suppose if you look at it that way you've had over an 80% success rate ;D ;D ;D ;)