Fruit Trees
March 1, 2009 9:53 pm Food RelatedOriginally I got carried away planing an orchard, I was soon brought back into the real world.
I’d planned a full succession of fruit for as long as I could through the year only to be faced with the realisation that we only had room for about 3 (dwarf) apple trees!
I spent a while looking online at Keepers Nursery (in Kent) who had really good detail about the different varieties what pollinates what and when they will fruit. In the end we bought a 1 year St Edmunds Pippin from Crown Nursery in Ufford and a Discovery ( we think this is a couple of years old) and a Damson from Kiln Farm Nursey (whilst the Internet is great for research, I still like to see plants before I get them.
So The Damson got planted out the front, in the hedge with next-door rather than facing onto the road (you don’t want to put your fruit trees next to the road if you can help it as they’ll get fumigated by passing cars) and the two apple trees got planted out in the back.
UPDATE
The St Edmunds Pippin hasn’t fruited this year but the Discovery has, they are still tiny, we’ll have to wait and see how big they get!