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Cheap(ish) fruit and nut trees

Post: # 188099Post Green Aura »

I've just bought one each - plum, cherry, conference pear, braeburn apple and bramley apple, bare-rooted 5' trees for £39.99 and stone pine, hazel, walnut and sweet chestnut for £19.99 plus postage (which for anyone who doesn't pay the Highlands surcharge :angryfire: was about a fiver I think) from a place called http://www.gardenbargains.com.

I'm guessing I probably won't live to pick my own walnuts but hey ho. :lol: (And don't worry - my neighbour's bought similar fruit trees so we've got the pollination sorted).

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Post: # 188157Post Millymollymandy »

Maggie you're not that old - walnuts fruit after about 10 years! :lol: Give them tons of spacing as they grow really big, and very fast. I can't believe how big our 3 have become in the 5 years we've been here, and the people here before planted them too close to each other and I've had to prune a lot back. :roll:
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Post: # 188184Post Green Aura »

It'll have to battle the winds up here so it may grow sideways :lol: Makes picking easier I suppose. I thought it was much longer than 10 years - excellent news. :thumbright:
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Post: # 188200Post Millymollymandy »

It might be only 8 or 9 years if they are already 5 ft high. Mine have more than doubled in height and the width of the trunks about quadrupled!
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Post: # 201776Post gray_bale »

If your walnut is grafted then is should start producing in 1, 2 or 3 years.

I doubt at that Price its grafted thou, so it would be +10 years before producing.

I have some 2010 grafted Broadview walnuts in the greenhouse already producing 1 or 2 nuts.
Typically I also have some 2009 grafted Hungarian Alsozentivanyi 117 that are in pots outside producing.
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Post: # 201796Post Millymollymandy »

I'm weeding out walnuts from all over my garden thanks to my pesky squirrel! Then he/she goes digging in the grass looking for them in all the wrong places. :roll: :lol:
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