Onoff
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Why? I figure if on the patch they'll be easy to add stuff to. Then when ready easy to tip out.
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Why? I figure if on the patch they'll be easy to add stuff to. Then when ready easy to tip out.
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Because it'll look cluttered & untidy.
A gardening weekend, chillies potted, Captain beefheart Tomatoes planted out, more beetroots sown to replace those trashed by the sparrows! now netted over till they are sparrow proof. Moved the apple tree grafts outside, My first attempt at grafting, I wanted to save some old trees that are on our club wasteland, now getting totally overgrown by brambles & scrub. Two are a nice prolific eating apple & then theres a pink one & a Russet.
All seem to have taken well.
Back in the new year i planted a Quince tree, its a Meeches prolific on a dwarf rootstock, Its taken well & already has had loads of flowers, i think it best to take most of the fruit off to give it time to establish its root system. I got it from Keepers nursery in Kent who specialise in Quinces.
All seem to have taken well.
Back in the new year i planted a Quince tree, its a Meeches prolific on a dwarf rootstock, Its taken well & already has had loads of flowers, i think it best to take most of the fruit off to give it time to establish its root system. I got it from Keepers nursery in Kent who specialise in Quinces.
Onoff
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How do you do that then? Got some great tasting trees here but very old.
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I recently planted some lawn.
I've watered it and have been watching it but nothing is growing yet.
It's to fill some massive dips that have appeared over the last few years after two soak aways were dug and the bit around the patio that was a 6" drop off after the building works on the extension. Took two builders bags but I reckon another half would have been good but I'm happy. One more job off the list!
I've watered it and have been watching it but nothing is growing yet.
It's to fill some massive dips that have appeared over the last few years after two soak aways were dug and the bit around the patio that was a 6" drop off after the building works on the extension. Took two builders bags but I reckon another half would have been good but I'm happy. One more job off the list!
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While I'm at it here's a picture of my black walnut tree I planted in 2024, I stole the seed from Chartwell, Winston Churchill's house on a visit 
I need to get it in a bigger pot but I don't want it in my own back garden as it's a big tree when fully grown.
I'll move it to the woods at the back and put one of those deer fences round it until it's big enough.
I need to get it in a bigger pot but I don't want it in my own back garden as it's a big tree when fully grown.
I'll move it to the woods at the back and put one of those deer fences round it until it's big enough.
Onoff
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Wouldn't a cheap one do?
That was my situation, mine were from an old landfill site that has quite a number of apple trees self sown on it, Im pretty sure most are not recognised varieties but the best ones are superb, I pruned a few of them & they did well but are getting buried under brambles & hawthorn scrub.
Grafting is where you take a known rootstock that will produce a full grown tree of a certain size & graft (or splice) a Scion oto it which is a piece of last years growth from the tree you want to replicate.
Rootstocks range from Dwarfing, Semi Dwarfing, Half Standard or Standard. I chose an M26 semi dwarfing rootstock which should produce a tree up to 12ft tall, Suppliers send out rootstock trees in midwinter for you to do the grafting in the early spring just before the sap starts rising. The bits fuse together & heal up becoming one tree.
Virtually all fruit trees are grown this way as you know what you are going to get.
It is possible to graft multiple variety scions onto a common rootstock so you might have 4 or 5 or more different apples on one tree.
There are loads of vids on you tube showing how to do it.
I will be planting the best one along the fence & espallier train it, This is where you train branches each side along a wire in horizontal rows so as to make a compact low tree.
It is good to obtain rootstocks from a reputable nursery, We once got a Greengage tree that was supposedly on a Dwarf rootstock..... It wasnt, In fact it was a standard & got very tall very fast, in the end it was so rampant that we had to remove it.
Onoff
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Great info. None of which I knew. Much appreciated.
Ooh...I see you're not a million miles away from me. If you ever fancy advising on a collection of manky fruit trees...
Onoff
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Swedes.....
Not this SORT:
But the vegetable. I do not understand these instructions on the packet. "Sow in drills 0.5cm deep", no problem.
However, "...40cm apart and thin to 1 plant every 12cm after 4 weeks".
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Not this SORT:
But the vegetable. I do not understand these instructions on the packet. "Sow in drills 0.5cm deep", no problem.
However, "...40cm apart and thin to 1 plant every 12cm after 4 weeks".
?
You can definitely graft different varieties of the same fruit as one tree (eg, bramley and cox's apples) but I don't think it works with different fruits.
Don't quote me but I think apples and pears need different root stock, although if you can find two compatible varieties it should in theory be possible.
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A "drill" in this case would be a "row", so "sow thinly in 0.5cm deep trenches which are 40cm apart. thin plants to 1 plant every 12 cm along the row, after 4 weeks"
Onoff
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I sort of get it....so how many seeds do I put in the trench and at what spacing?
