Aldi Fruit Trees; £3:49 Today

IceColdRum

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

It was *supposed* to be a plum tree but annoyingly, the variety escapes me

It'll get chopped when I'm next there

If the rootstock is well established (which it sounds like) then you could graft a nicer plum back onto the rootstock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yty_MfVYa5c

koiboy

I have a small garden been looking for an apple tree are these good quality trees and how big do they get can they be grown in containers'

DaftyDuck

They are reasonable.... cheap for what they are, but not high quality.

If you are looking for a single tree, as your only fruit tree, I'd suggest going to a garden centre, or ordering from one of the three links I provided in the first post. You'll get a better tree, it will probably give you more satisfaction. Aldi trees used to be better.

Size: they'll grow to about eight feet high, or somewhat smaller. Again, if you use the suppliers in the links, you'll get a full range of sizes, from four or five feet, right through to stonking great field-sized trees...

Container-grown? You could... but I wouldn't recommend it. Look for "Patio Trees" ... the DIY chains like Homebase sell them, at around £15 a tree.

Waterlily24

We bought a Granny Smith one, hopefully it will be a Granny Smith.
We bought one a few years from either Aldi or Lidl and it definitely isn't a Granny Smith but it fruits well and the apples are OK. Luckily we've got a big garden so we've got room for an extra one. Hubby is planting it at the moment.


Fingers crossed lol

atrixblue.-MFR-.

My local aldi had plum, crab apple, Cherry, pear, they didn't look of quality that has normally been seen in the past in aldi.


The raspberry canes they had in were DEAD, ALL OF THEM!! They were wrapped up so tight with black cellophane tape then Bagged with a green "breathable" bag but were wrapped so high up from the root They suffered terribly with rot and mould. I did a bark scrape to see if any were salvageable and there were no signs on green inside, in fact its was a dry dark brown!


Pound strechers os where I found my cherry tree and raspberry cane )I actually wanted a Tayberry but they sold out!, bit dearer but at least they were alive!
Also have small fruit tree's http://www.poundstretcher.co.uk/fruit-trees they also have 4-6ft rootstock "stella" cherry tree's for £4.99. apple, pear, plumb also.

sgun

I had a look yesterday and they certainly aren't as good as a few years back. I do agree the grafting is clumsy. I'm also uneasy about the flood of cheap plants coming in from Europe (Aldi's are Bosnian this year). Not just because we don't have stringent enough import regulations but also because the UK horticulture industry is excellent and we should be supporting it.

RAS

Wilko are selling at twice the price of Aldi - £7.99 but the trees have been allowed to grow and have not been cut back for packing so easier to train, some 1.5m.

Limited range including Golden Delicious, Discovery (early tip bearer and limited storage) and Braeburn apples, Stella and Morello cherry and President and Czar plums. Czar is good up north.

londonTiger

fruit trees are a 10-15 year investment in time. You should really do your research and pick the exact tree you want, even if the "right" tree happens to cost £50.

You do not want to get a tree that you will not enjoy the fruits of and isn't the optimal variety in terms of yield or taste and buying just because is £5.

Nothing worse than cutting a tree down after 5 years growing it because nobody eats the fruit. Or the location is not ideal for that paticular tree.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

londonTiger wrote: »

fruit trees are a 10-15 year investment in time. You should really do your research and pick the exact tree you want, even if the "right" tree happens to cost £50.

You do not want to get a tree that you will not enjoy the fruits of and isn't the optimal variety in terms of yield or taste and buying just because is £5.

Nothing worse than cutting a tree down after 5 years growing it because nobody eats the fruit. Or the location is not ideal for that paticular tree.

most fruit trees will bear fruit in the second year of planting, the quantity increases year on year as the rootgraft matures. my tree is 5.3ft tall.
you can buy orchard quality tree's for £££'s but if it don't like your soil no matter the cost its either not going to fruit or will simply die.

wellused

Three trees for twelve quid, if the plum turns out to be a pear so what, if they fruit they fruit they are on an allotment it's all a gamble have fun and take a chance.