Fruit Plants for £1.99 coming in at Aldi

rms1

Fruit Plants for £1.99 coming in at Aldi

HERE :j

SailorSam

Must go in and have a look. They have a fig for £1.99
Was on here the other day someone selling fig plants for almost a fiver, if i remember right.

Sophie4120

Thanks for this - I popped in this morning and got a couple of blueberry plants, a couple of figs and a tayberry :T

I was also wooed by the beautiful clematis they had - really decent price for the size of plant!

Welsh_Poppy

Yep we have been we bought:
Blueberry,tayberry,loganberry,grape,gojiberry and red gooseberry
There are really healthy and great value a top bargain

I did not let myself get wooed by the clematis as on a budget!

pookiewn

Ooo, they look rather tempting! Would like some kiwi and figs and at a very good price... if only there were an aldi near here

freezspirit

Yep the two that I wanted, Like always had already gone - Blueberry and Kiwi! There was several all all the others.

mcgrow

Going to try tomorrow, but from what I've seen on other forums, people are going in and buying them up in bulk. The berries are the most interesting to me because they won't grow into big trees.

Primrose

if you getting a Kiwifruit, check that it's a variety called Jenny as I believe that's the only self-fertile variety and any other varieties will need more than one plant to cross pollinate.
I don't think there anyway you can grow a promgranate in this climate unfortunately and many varieties of blueberry also need more than one plant to cross-pollinate if you want them to fruit. Single bushes of gooseberry, tayberry and loganberry should be OK but it could take a couple of years, if they're small plants, before they bear any fruit. Fig trees need to be planted in pots which will restrain their roots otherwise they'll spend all their time spreading their roots and not developing any fruits, most of which sadly don't ripen in the average UK summer (as I've found to my cost).

kings981

9 cm pots are very small. It will take a long time to get a decent amount of fruit from these plants especially from something like a fig. Currant bushes will grow faster but it may be about three years before you get a good haul.

Other fig trees from garden centres and nurseries will be more expensive but they will have been grown on for longer and therefore nearer a fruiting size and much more established. Trees do take a long time to grow! Time is money after all.

I was very keen at the beginning of the year when 99p stores offered similar plants for - well 99p. Of course the plants were so small I may not even get a crop next year from them. I wish I had put a few more pounds in for a good sized plant, as it is I have already wasted a year. When you plant a new fruit bush, you have to prune it in the first year so that it can get good roots down.

I expect if you contact a local nursery you could get some good bareroot plants for a only few pounds - in the autumn - which is the best time to plant them when the plants are dormant and have much better plants as a result.

mcgrow

kings981 wrote: »

It will take a long time to get a decent amount of fruit from these plants especially from something like a fig. Currant bushes will grow faster but it may be about three years before you get a good haul.

I'm in it for the long term, but I'm sure others will find that useful to know. Ideally, I would like to grow them from seed, so I'll probably do that with some blueberries in the next year.

My local Aldi only had one red gooseberry, which was the main one I wanted, and a load of wolfberry (goji) plants, so I got one of them just to try.

SailorSam

I went into the Aldi in St Helens yesterday morning and they didn't have any of these.