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I gnipped in today for some sour cream and there was a great load of fruit trees, good quality looking trees too. I saw a few apple and pear varieties and "stella" cherry.

All at £6.99

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Kindest regards, David.

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updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs

and did you nipp out with one??

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Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful..William Morris

No Shirley, we have planted 30 in the last 2 years, were all fruited up now.

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Kindest regards, David.

http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/
updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs

Try Morrison's too - good few varieties of apple, plum, apricot etc at £4.99 each (I seccumbed and now have a cherry tree impulse buy - whoops)

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Cheers

T-lady

Hi

Oh no will have to go shopping with my eyes closed. I would love a pear and cherry tree but have no where to put them. I have two patio apple trees.

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Bye

PT

Carpe Diem

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you have got to put up with the rain!

i went to buy one apple tree to go with the one i got on saturday ended up buying 2 apple, one cherry, i soooooooooooo would love a peach and a blueberry i stood for ages looking at them

you all know the problem we are suffering from??? we were all bitten by the same bug..growing your own. Once you get it , it never leaves

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Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful..William Morris

So true, so true, I end up telling fibs on how much things cost..........lol......sometimes you cannot help yourself........I treated myself last year to a BRAND new shed lol..........

i got a pear and a cherry tree planted this year to go with my apple tree...not from a supermarket tho

I don't know if they have them still but i went to Lidl with my mum 1 or 2 weeks ago and i got some healthy looking fruit bushes. I got one bluberry one red currant and one white currant

Seriously, I don't know what sort of Tesco you'd have to be to sell fruit bushes. My nearest town has a 24 hour Tesco superstore but they ain't selling them. I never got the chance to find out if my local Aldi and Lidl are selling these reported fruit bushes (none last time) so I think I must have a lazy git population from that town .

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They have them in my Tesco too. It's a Tesco Extra, the huge ones that sell big stuff too like washing machines - don't know if that makes a difference? They've had them since last week. They look very healthy and I pondered for ages, but I just haven't got room at the moment (didn't consider fruit trees in my plan ).

my lodger has seen what i have been doing i told him what ive spent and he was like, "be bliming cheaper just to buy the stuff" " sigh " he just doesnt get it, the joy, the sunshine watching these little things grow........... the back ache, the cold, the rain, .....hang on why am i doing this again.

We are getting a Tescos!!!!

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Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
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mmmmmmmm new fruit trees.

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Yo an' Bob
Walk lightly on the earth
take only what you need
give all you can
and your produce will be bountifull

We planted a cherry fpr my sone when he was born, and it fruited heavily last year (after only 3 years too). We moved it when we moved house and there are buds coming so fingers crossed.
I have planted a pear, and a plum and a peach in the new house (it already has a big apple) and got to decide which is for my 9 month old. It's a nice idea we thought as the trees can grow with the boys!

I might have to go and have a looksee in Tesco as love a bargain even if not got enough room!

janeyo

Congrats jennie my tesco card no is****&&^^^%% dont forget to get one it is only a penny in the pound back but it is better than nothing : jacob

Has anyone seen grape vines in any of the supermarkets. I am looking for a red and a white to add to my fruit area, but not seen any yet? Or should I be taking a bit more time and trouble over selecting this type of fruit?

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Mclaren Pit Crew (MCP) .

hi the fruit trees mentioned are they patio and do they look like maidens or do they look a couple of years old, i prefer trees a few years old as they are normally certified and you dont have to wait so long for fruiting, my nearest big tesco extra is 15 miles away ive got broken ribs at mo so dont want to go unless its what i want. still gardening slowly as 23 fruit bushes 40 raspberry canes 70 strawberry runners wont plant themselves nor will my other 50 odd plants care for themselves. the gardening bug sparkes motivation even when you know you should be laid on the sofa feeling sorry for yourself, but the weather was too good to pass on, i hope my ribs forgive me!!!!!!!
As a woman this is multi tasking at its best nursing knackered ribs and gardening at same time.

grapevines are slow growing dont expect fruit for min 3 years Blackmoor Nurseries, Suppliers Of Top Quality Fruit Trees and Soft Fruit Bushes Mail Order, The UKs Leading Speacialist Fruit Nursery. has some great grape vine choices, worth noting (grape vines do best on south facing walls even better in a south facing green house) also if you were thinking seedless only lakemont a green seedless grows well in england especially if you dont live in the south, most suppliers tell me red or black seedless dont grow in uk as weather as not warm enough. No wonder we made better beer than wine! ha ha

So are we

We islanders must be some of the few people in the country that actually look forward to Tescos opening.

David

My feeble will power gave up and I bought a really smashing looking cherry at tesco's today (who knows what it'll fruit like?!). However I did notice on the labels that the 'Display until' date was the 9th April (wed). I don't know if that means they will stop selling them after this date, or it was just this batch? Just incase anyone was thinking of getting one...or three!

i went to tescos display date is cos there wrapped in plastic head to toe so will sweat and die if left to long, i went hoping they would be patio or dwarf trees as i can only grow in pots but these trees are full sized when mature, i may have got away with the cherry if i kept well cut back but decided on the local nursery where i got my trees on the dwarf root stock, there expert was great and for a nursery prices good too £17 - £19 for trees that are 4 and 5 year old so can be let to fruit as the nursery picked of first years fruit last year. went mad though and got 7