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I bought one of these trees end of last year from Suttons (don't know if it's an exclusive to them or available elsewhere), and it was shipped to me mid-April of this year. It arrived mail-order in a plant box, the actual plant about 5" high and bristling with new buds. I couldn't plant it up straight away, lets say early May it went into a 20L pot with compost and slow release fertiliser granules.
Being a dwarf I'm not sure whether to let it grow like a bush (as per the picture) or a small tree; in the event I've trained a central leader up a cane and allowed that to branch naturally in addition to a handful of thinner stems sprouting from compost level (bit of both I guess).
Why is this in Recommendations and not the fruit category?
Because.. the growth rate has been just fantastic; over 4 feet in barely 4 months, and the same in width! From a plant just a few inches high in May.
I don't grow soft fruit, and this is only my 3rd fruit tree (apple and a peach the other two), and it's dwarf at that, so maybe I'm getting ahead of myself(?) but it seemed like a lot of development for a few months from almost nothing. Had a first few berries too but not edible ones. From next year apparently I can expect it to be fruiting for 5 straight MONTHS
Cannot wait 
There was a mature black mulberry tree in the garden of a house I worked at years ago; that was my first taste of mulberries. Been looking for them ever since
Being a dwarf I'm not sure whether to let it grow like a bush (as per the picture) or a small tree; in the event I've trained a central leader up a cane and allowed that to branch naturally in addition to a handful of thinner stems sprouting from compost level (bit of both I guess).
Why is this in Recommendations and not the fruit category?
Because.. the growth rate has been just fantastic; over 4 feet in barely 4 months, and the same in width! From a plant just a few inches high in May.
I don't grow soft fruit, and this is only my 3rd fruit tree (apple and a peach the other two), and it's dwarf at that, so maybe I'm getting ahead of myself(?) but it seemed like a lot of development for a few months from almost nothing. Had a first few berries too but not edible ones. From next year apparently I can expect it to be fruiting for 5 straight MONTHS
Cannot wait There was a mature black mulberry tree in the garden of a house I worked at years ago; that was my first taste of mulberries. Been looking for them ever since
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