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Jump to unread Post a CommentWhen buying plants in dormancy you need to use your nail and rub a bit of the bark off - if it is green then it is healthy, brown it is dead.
Peach trees don’t generally succeed in this country. It’s too damp and not warm enough. If you have a south-facing wall in a sheltered spot, where you can plant the tree, you might do ok.
Apples are easier to grow. With most varieties (eg Cox, Braeburn), you need more than one tree to pollinate each other – otherwise you won’t get any fruit. More technically, different varieties flower at slightly different times and if the flowering times don’t overlap, they still won’t pollinate each other. Safest is to buy two trees of the same variety.
I don’t know much about pears, plums or cherries.
No. Scratching the bark away will kill the trees
Yes, trees do grow quietly.
Serious answer: Apple trees and maybe the other types offered are usually some new growth grafted onto a rootstock - that is, roots and stem. The rootstock used determines how big the tree grows. In British terminology, most garden scale fruit trees are on M27 rootstock (very small, eventual height 2-3 metres) or M9 (3-4 metres). These may not be labelled in this way.
Peach trees don’t generally succeed in this country. It’s too damp and not warm enough. If you have a south-facing wall in a sheltered spot, where you can plant the tree, you might do ok.
Apples are easier to grow. With most varieties (eg Cox, Braeburn), you need more than one tree to pollinate each other – otherwise you won’t get any fruit. More technically, different varieties flower at slightly different times and if the flowering times don’t overlap, they still won’t pollinate each other. Safest is to buy two trees of the same variety.
I don’t know much about pears, plums or cherries.
Then how do you explain James and the Giant Peach!
Peach trees don’t generally succeed in this country. It’s too damp and not warm enough. If you have a south-facing wall in a sheltered spot, where you can plant the tree, you might do ok.
Apples are easier to grow. With most varieties (eg Cox, Braeburn), you need more than one tree to pollinate each other – otherwise you won’t get any fruit. More technically, different varieties flower at slightly different times and if the flowering times don’t overlap, they still won’t pollinate each other. Safest is to buy two trees of the same variety.
I don’t know much about pears, plums or cherries.
Then how do you explain James and the Giant Peach!
Ha ha, this is the best comment I've seen on here for ages, then again, I am easily amused :D
This might be of interest, my stone grown peach tree gets leaf curl each year, but when I tried one of these I'm yet to see any leaf disease:
http://www.thompson-morgan.com/fruit/fruit-trees/stone-fruit-trees/peach-avalon-pride/87129TM
I think I'll get some more though!
I wish I didn’t have to mow the lawn all the time in summer :p
The apple trees I bought from Lidl about 3 years ago have hardly grown at all. Also, the crop of apples has so far been very poor.
Maybe it is my soil, however I have got good growth & outstanding cropping from a plum tree planted in the same part of the garden.
Considering the unsatisfactory performance of the apple trees, I recently chose to purchase a pear tree on line from a "proper" nursery.
Lidl's trees are only tiny.
One of Lidl's Cherry trees (Sweet Heldifinger) wont produce any fruit unless it has a pollinator Cherry tree close by - a good pollinator is the Tesco / Aldi variety Stella cherry.
Tesco's are £7 each as they are much larger trees.