Fruit Plants for £1.99 coming in at Aldi

cjb02

I popped in to Aldi (Wakefield, Yorkshire) yesterday lunch time and they had about 5 plants left, 3 goosberries, 1 grape vine and 1 fig. I think the fig was left because it had a grape vine label in, So I got a fig. Very happy with it. I wanted a blueberry, but maybe next time

rms1

I started the thread and by the time I got there myself yesterday. There was nothing left

Waterlily24

We got a fig, gojiberry and pomegranate yesterday, that's all they had left.

Principia_2

I managed to get 4 red gooseberry bushes which are planted up today (between the rain )

I looked at the other types of bushes but decided I'd stick with gooseberries as they seemed the easiest to deal with.

They're in pots at the moment but I'm hoping to have decided where to put them next year and plant them in the garden.

Sophie4120

kings981 wrote: »

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.

One of the figs I picked up had two fruits on it - not a bumper harvest i'll grant you, but I was impressed it was already fruiting!

AndyUK79

I managed to get some of these plants :j . The only problem is, they are not labelled what types they are :mad: . I wish they would of labelled them so we knew! Like the grapvines, are they seedless grapes? is the kiwi self fertile? and so on. I have looked on the Aldi website, but they do not have a email contact. Also the plants have no indication as to what company supplied aldi with them. If anyone does know any info, please could you share it, thanks.

gillian62

Spent Friday dashing round our local Lidl and disappointed that there weren't any fruit bushes left. Then realised I should have been looking at Aldi!! lol.