Pollinating Fruit Trees

[janeyo]

I need patience then... anyone know where I can buy some of that?!

[hooraynana]

cor blimey and here was me thinking yippee bargain fruit trees !
All sounds sooooo complicated - but for £3.99 i'll risk it for a biscuit lol

next year when i have barren dead bramley trees - remind me of this 'bargain'
ho ho ho

[janeyo]

I don't think they will be dead, just no apples!

[dawn.s]

and there was me thinking you can just buy a tree, stick it in and eat the fruit.



Me too.....sounds a bit complicated, like some sort of maths equation...........
............and I've just bought 3 trees from Lidl think they'll be going in while my fingers are crossed

[crichmond]

The best thing you can do to help pollination is to get a colony of bees, three upsides to this 1 - fruit trees get pollinated, 2 - you get fresh honey, 3 - you can make your own bees wax polish.

[pigletwillie]

I have some 25 lidl / Aldi fruit trees on my plot. Half are cordoned, a couple espaliered and the rest planted as an orchard.

Even in year 1 we got some apples, year two most trees produced fruit, year three saw the pears, plum and cherries fruit as well as the apples and last year saw everything set fruit, even the apricot.