Aldi offer

[lettucegrow!]

Well, I'll be having a look. Cheap and cheerful is right up my street!

[FB.]

I believe Grapes can also be eaten straight from the vine [after a good wash, of course.

Yes, I usually eat my grapes, but the downside of most home-grown grapes is that they usually contain between two and four small pips - ranging in size from large grass seed to small wheat grains.
Eating home-grown grapes reminds me of my childhood - spitting out the pips onto a plate!

Still don't like red wine though.

[FB.]

Never heard of such a thing...........washing the 'bloom' off grapes?!

I think that many of the white coatings on fruits ("bloom") are actually naturally-occurring yeasts. They may help block diseases that attack the plant, and the natural yeasts will usually happily do as good a job as brewers yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae).
Of course, if, like most modern fruits, they have been treated with fungicide, the yeast "bloom" will be killed and you'd probably have to add some brewers yeast to a fermentation mixture.

[gojiberry]

Will also be down there as I have had more sucess with aldi stuff than the real macoy from garden centres. Have two apple a plum and a cherry growing away nicely on the lottie from Aldi but the apricot, peach and almond from reputable sources are no longer with us.

Ian

[21again]

Yep, our Aldi Glen Ample raspberries that I planted last year have given us loads of fruit this year.

There were 3 canes amongst the pack which have now 5 new canes to produce loads more fruit next year.

15 canes, 3 gave us quite a good crop, best I buy another freezer if I get fruit from 15 next year!

I will def be going to check what other varieties of raspberries they have in.

[Nicos]

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I usually struggle to manage to give them away for free to anyone who will collect.

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Don't think you will this year!!!!

I'm sure there'll be a few takers on here if you say what you have nerer the time!

[ohbeary]

I think that many of the white coatings on fruits ("bloom") are actually naturally-occurring yeasts. They may help block diseases that attack the plant, and the natural yeasts will usually happily do as good a job as brewers yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae).
Of course, if, like most modern fruits, they have been treated with fungicide, the yeast "bloom" will be killed and you'd probably have to add some brewers yeast to a fermentation mixture.

FB me old darlin, whatever a plant has been treated with in the nursery is hardly likely to carry over to the fruit and if it should have a bloom on so much the better!, personally I will sanitise with sulphite and replace the natural yeast with champagne yeast for whites and burgundy yeast for reds.

Regarding cheap plant stock, I have a monster in my front garden, sold as "cotoneaster" this brute is 4m X 3m and has yellow flowers but no berries this has been cut to the ground several times but keeps comming back, was my 50p from Woolworths worth it?

[Nordmead]

considering they come in a 9cm pot how long will the fig/kiwi/pomegranate take to set fruit?

[Mrs Dobby]

Thanks Oldie, we were first in through the doors this morning when they opened at 9am, bagged 3 goji, a tayberry, 2 kiwi, 2 red goosegogs and a fig, plus 2 lovely clematis! Guess we're going to be busy later on planting them all out at the plot!

[yellow strawberry]

we purchased one of each

grapevine
fig
pomegranate
blue berry
goji berry
gooseberry
loganberry

[Snadger]

I'll make a point of calling after work! Watch, they'll be all gone!

[Plot10]

"I'll make a point of calling after work! Watch, they'll be all gone! "

Good luck Snadger.

I've just been, ,they only had about 20 plants left so I picked up one each of Gooseberry, loganberry and tayberry and blueberry. A woman came in about behind me and just picked the box up with the rest in and headed for the checkout!

[hamsterhead]

FB me old darlin, whatever a plant has been treated with in the nursery is hardly likely to carry over to the fruit and if it should have a bloom on so much the better!, personally I will sanitise with sulphite and replace the natural yeast with champagne yeast for whites and burgundy yeast for reds.

Instead of the Burgundy yeast try a Port yeast. Thats what I used to do and results were much better

[di]

Yay!! Great! Thanks Oldie.

Oh, darn it - I'm going to be in Ipswich on Thursday...

Aldi, 3, Hines Road, Ipswich IP3 9BG

There's one on Meredith Road too....if you go after 5:30 you might bump into me

[Snadger]

Bought a Goji! There was only Goji,red goosegog and grape left! Already have two grape vines and four variously coloured goosegogs anyway!
Fancied a tayberry and loganberry, but hey ho!