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 Topic: Fruit - what are you planting? |
Marches
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 Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sun Mar 24, 13 9:37 pm Subject: Fruit - what are you planting? |
| I planted a red haven peach tree about a month ago. |
| Topic: Bay tree seedlings |
Marches
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sun Mar 24, 13 9:29 pm Subject: Bay tree seedlings |
I saw a woman by two bay trees at £70 each the other day! I almost died.  £140 for two fairly boring looking trees, what's wrong with people, how can they waste so much money?  |
| Topic: Chilli Geekery 2013 |
Marches
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sun Mar 24, 13 9:25 pm Subject: Chilli Geekery 2013 |
| I might grow chillis myself this year. |
| Topic: If Your Soil Is Pathetic |
Marches
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sun Mar 24, 13 9:24 pm Subject: If Your Soil Is Pathetic |
"There's no such thing as bad soil, just bad gardeners"
Even a poor rocky soil can grow something, in such cases one has to find crops suitable for the soil instead of planting just anything. |
| Topic: Which fan trained plum? |
Marches
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed Feb 13, 13 11:40 am Subject: Which fan trained plum? |
With apple fruits being imported from all over the world I doubt there's much added risk importing trees from across the channel.
In the case of phytoptheras soil brought in with tree roots appears ... |
| Topic: Which fan trained plum? |
Marches
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed Feb 13, 13 11:15 am Subject: Which fan trained plum? |
| If you have room for both, the Fiesta should pollinate the Elstar, which appears to be self-sterile. I wouldn't judge any fruit by its performance in 2012, which was a good year for growing but a bad ... |
| Topic: Which fan trained plum? |
Marches
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed Feb 13, 13 12:11 am Subject: Which fan trained plum? |
Rather than 'The Fruit Expert', have a look at the Orange Pippin website.
The majority of the apples sold in non-specialist shops are difficult varieties. Bramleys are enormous growing sterile triplo ... |
| Topic: Which fan trained plum? |
Marches
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Feb 12, 13 10:11 pm Subject: Which fan trained plum? |
| Sorry, not keen on cheap supermarket trees, I've wasted time and space on them. And I like to support committed growers who grow special varieties - the £15 difference when looked at over the 50 year ... |
| Topic: Which fan trained plum? |
Marches
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Feb 12, 13 2:14 pm Subject: Which fan trained plum? |
| Sorry, not keen on cheap supermarket trees, I've wasted time and space on them. And I like to support committed growers who grow special varieties - the £15 difference when looked at over the 50 year ... |
| Topic: Which fan trained plum? |
Marches
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Feb 12, 13 12:45 pm Subject: Which fan trained plum? |
Thanks for mentioning the Keepers sale - I bought Avalon and Bohemian Zwetsche plums yesterday, and also Scrumptious apple and Golden Sphere mirabelle/cherry plum for a friend.
Excellent - so plea ... |
| Topic: Grape vines |
Marches
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Feb 07, 13 6:02 pm Subject: Grape vines |
| Most of the labels had fallen off by the time they got to us, so we haven't a clue what's what, and because we're normally too busy with the orchard the grapes suffer deep neglect. Never really had mu ... |
| Topic: Grape Vines |
Marches
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Feb 07, 13 12:13 am Subject: Re: Grape Vines |
Going through the plan for the garden I've realised that I have enough room on a south (ish) facing wall for a couple of vines.
Whilst I am a keen homebrewer, I am guessing that most of the harvest w ... |
| Topic: paper whites. |
Marches
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed Feb 06, 13 11:48 pm Subject: Re: paper whites. |
Will they rebloom inside? If not will they survive outside in this country?
In the south west they will, in the rest of the country it depends. They can survive a mild winter like this one so far, ... |
| Topic: Hemp. |
Marches
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed Feb 06, 13 11:45 pm Subject: Hemp. |
Hemp seeds are quite a good health food, apparently they contain basically everything. 
There's a commercial grower in Devon, "Good Hemp protein" that makes all sorts from it. They make protein p ... |
| Topic: Grape vines |
Marches
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed Feb 06, 13 11:30 pm Subject: Re: Grape vines |
Just ordered 30 vines (all dessert) from Sunnybank nurseries http://vinenursery.netfirms.com
He's a lovely guy, an enthusiast not a commercial nursery which must be why he's so cheap, very good for ... |
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