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Really keen to try this fruit. But only few companies sell it - cheapest I've found is just under £12. Anybody know of anyone selling for less??
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If you have a Wyevale nearby £6 or my other local garden centre similar price.Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein
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I bought one earlier this year after wanting to grow one for several years, but it died. I'm sort of glad in a way, it was covered in very prickly small spines, not at all "soft and hairy" as they are often described. I can console myself with my army of thornless raspberry canes and blackberries that I'm growing this year.Comment
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i bought one 2 years ago and it died 2 months later :-(Comment
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I wondered what happened to all these wineberries - I thought they were supposed to be quite vigorous!Comment
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Oh dear! I'm good at killing fruit at the best of time...Alys Fowler said this was an easy one to grow...
Yes have huge wyvale nearby, but never seen them there...blueberries are the most radical fruit bush they sell! Thanks for the crocus link...ooh will defo check that out - sounds too good to be true, maybe its a tiny seedling? But thanks for info tho, will check now.Comment
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Hello CHickbob...I bought mine from Crocus and it's growing nicely...no sign of fruit yet though and like Hillwalker I was surprised to find that it's not at all softly furry but actually superprickly...urk, if I'd known I'd have put it somewhere else. Will report.
In the meantime, on the subject of Unusual Vegetables - me too! equally obsessed. HAve you looked at Mark Diacono's book? I was very excited at first but it's fairly hopeless with a small garden, when you have to choose just one mini-tree for example.
Like you I'm trying amaranth, viet coriander...if you find any of that exciting Alys-recommended spinach I'd love a couple of seeds! what else has worked for you? i'm having trouble accessing the Alys thread you started about this...Comment
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Pleased I'm not the only one obsessed with unusual veg/herbs...keep joking that I'm Alys Fowler's stalker!!
Yes, unbelievably just found your post and have just finished reading Mark's book.
Yeah, I agree - until most of the nut trees come down in size, pretty limited in normal gardening space terms.
However, when I first started shopping around you could only get enormous mulberry trees, but they're being bread on smaller rootstock. So there's hope...
As for this year...growing strawberry spinach, doing great. I'm 2nd year with achocha fat baby, which is fast becoming my 'dessert island' veg...its brilliant if you haven't tried it...do so!
Also, basella/malabar spinach, the nicest herb I've ever ever tried - Papillo and unusual shaped leaves of water spinach - yet to put on much growth...more water perhaps?, new zeland spinach, tree spinach (bit earthy, but pretty nonetheless), tatsoi , mispoona and komatsuna. one tomatillo plant growing great - its pollinating partner yet to show a flower...so I guess no tomatillo's year 1!
Still hunting down Hablitzia tamnoides - spinach that Alys suggested. Have even joined the facebook group to hound some unsuspecting Norwegian into parting with a few seeds. Finally discovered you can buy in this country for £4...bargain, till read that postage is £14!!!!!Comment
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oh and bought some egyptian walking onions (tree onions) after reading mark's book. these are settling in nicely. also hankering over a quince and a medlar, but looking out for teenie tiny one's at the mo.Comment
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Chickbob, you have an ally down south - all the below have featured heavily on my fantasy list. Want to hear how you do with the EW onions as had my heart on them. Have also been longing for (Alys rec.) a, wait for it, Nepalese Raspberry (or was it a blackberry)...but not exactly piled high at my local garden centre.
So...more info re: the recommended ones below please. Got nowhere with my malabar spinach seeds (we should pool resources) - not enough warmth perhaps? Is it basello or papillo which is your fave herb, and can you tell me more? Tree spinach etc - where did you get your seeds? and how does it differ/improve on NZ and strawb spinach? Really want to know as my efforts with 'normal' spinach haven't been great, and I love the exciting kinds...
re: trees, where did you find a mulberry on a smaller rootstock? intrigued...but you haven't gone for it yet. I dream of that and a quince, preferably mini enough for a big pot, but have been told that mulberry roots very shallow so unlikely to work...wonder if that's true.
Tomatillo - I have exactly the same problem! One huge and floral, one teeny and hopeless - wish we could work out an exchange...
tell me some more of your faves. have you tried Tromboncino yet? not superrare but really fantastic courgette equivalent.
are you as obsessed with tomatoes as I am? fave herbs? other good books?
oh and I 've posted elsewhere re: Jostaberries - wondering if can grow one in a pot. Any idea?
Great to find a fellow enthusiast/maniac. oh and btw do you have the sacred Alys's edible garden book - wonder if it's one for me.
And Hablitzia tamnoides...wossat? have missed her recommendation - but sounds like my kinda thing.Comment
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