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Growing => Fruit => Topic started by: Carl f k on February 02, 2013, 08:12:04 pm

Title: Aldi fruit trees
Post by: Carl f k on February 02, 2013, 08:12:04 pm

Are on sale Thursday has anyone tried them?

Title: Re: Aldi fruit trees
Post by: deepinthewoods on February 02, 2013, 08:20:23 pm

yup. theyre allright for the moneys.

Title: Re: Aldi fruit trees
Post by: Carl f k on February 02, 2013, 09:02:36 pm

Cheers Dave I think I'll get a few :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Aldi fruit trees
Post by: katie on February 02, 2013, 09:14:20 pm

Have I missed the Lidl ones? They were really good last year.

Title: Re: Aldi fruit trees
Post by: Lesley Silvester on February 02, 2013, 10:31:18 pm

Willow will enjoy them if she gets the chance, Carl.  I only grow the ones on dwarf rooting stock as I just have the garden.  The goats made sure they remain dwarf earlier this year.   :rant:

Title: Re: Aldi fruit trees
Post by: hughesy on February 02, 2013, 11:31:19 pm

We planted some cheapo Aldi?Lidl fruit trees a few years ago. They haven't done too well compared to the more expensive trees we've bought from "proper" suppliers.

Title: Re: Aldi fruit trees
Post by: Mammyshaz on February 02, 2013, 11:33:39 pm

I bought a few aldi ones 2 years ago. They got hammered by the kids playing footie etc but some made it. My mum bought some too, they all did well and fruited aplenty last year  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Aldi fruit trees
Post by: ballingall on February 10, 2013, 10:44:46 am

Noted yesterday that pound stretcher had cheap fruit trees as well- actually thought they looked pretty good condition as well.....


Beth

Title: Re: Aldi fruit trees
Post by: denmylne on February 11, 2013, 05:54:47 pm

I will be out and about this week collecting scion material in north fife and the carse of gowrie

there is about 30 odd "known" scots varieties, but i will also be collecting scions from the trees in the carse which were tagged in 2 surveys in the last 10 years, about 400 of them(i have my work cut out)

these include lindores (june), as seen on the beach grove garden, black auchan (dec) very late fruit (probably norwiegen in origin) cussie madam and longville, both extinct in france, both excellent fruits,

i have also ordered 300 pyrus communis and 100 quince rootstock

why not consider grafting 3 or 4 different scions onto your aldi trees?

if anyone would like any scion material, free to a good home
or indeed any rootstock (cost price £1.......?? how does this compare to aldis?)

pm me

for a definitive list of scots pears, see here

http://denmylne.wordpress.com/about/ (http://denmylne.wordpress.com/about/)

by the way, this isnt really a blog site, just a free dumping ground for a ever increasingly large data base

Title: Re: Aldi fruit trees
Post by: Womble on February 11, 2013, 06:07:45 pm

Just one thing, it's worth doing your homework with these to ensure any trees you get have a proper pollenator somewhere roundabouts. The ones I saw in the supermarkets last year had very little info on this, but it is pretty important wouldn't you say!?

Title: Re: Aldi fruit trees
Post by: denmylne on February 23, 2013, 09:00:31 am

This is true Womble, but you can always plant your aldis tree then graft different scions of different types of apples onto the lower branches, if you google apple pollenation, you can find lists of compatible apple types that you can graft onto your aldi apple tree

It is the root stock which is important, once it is established, you can effectively turn the apple tree into any variety you like