Lidl fruit trees on sale on Thursday

[Bacchus]

Just noticed that Lidl will be selling fruit trees tomorrow the 5th Feb. It might only be Northern Ireland though.

varieties on offer are
Apple
Braeburn
Golden delicious
Granny smyth

Cherry
Stella
Sunburst

Plums
Victoria
Opal
Lizzy

Pears
Abate
Williams
Conference

[DiggerSean]

Aldi start selling theirs tomorrow too (£3.99 each), which always seem to be quite popular. They were also selling packs of 3 soft fruit bushes yesterday with some decent varieties available.

https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuy...fruit-trees-3/

[Thelma Sanders]

They aren't listed on the weekly offers email

[Jay-ell]

Dont know about the Lidle trees, but the rootstocks for the Aldi trees are here

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ml#post1318871


Cant see anything on the lidl website about the trees - Bacchus where did you see the details?

[Bacchus]

From Thursday - Lidl Northern Ireland


Heres the link...

[Thelma Sanders]

Oooh- hope they get here soon, then!

Lidl is much easier, than Aldi, for me to get to

[yummersetter]

Are those apple varieties good in the Northern Ireland climate?

[Jay-ell]

Oh dear - they don't appear to tell you the rootstock. ...

Jason - shut up now

[Jay-ell]

Oh dear - they don't appear to tell you the rootstock. ... Anyone know Aldi NIs customer service email?

Jason - shut up now

[Bigmallly]

For the extra quid it may pay to check out £strecher while your at it.

[Bacchus]

Are those apple varieties good in the Northern Ireland climate?

The Braeburn and the Bramley's certainly are - Bramley's are the main apple grown here commercially.

The Armagh Bramley is a European Protected Food Name - For those who are interested... see link

http://www.armaghbramley.com/history/

[danny31]

Lidl fruits

I've had red, black and white currants from Lidl before. They seem fine.

[drfruit]

Aldi start selling theirs tomorrow too (£3.99 each), which always seem to be quite popular. They were also selling packs of 3 soft fruit bushes yesterday with some decent varieties available.

https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuy...fruit-trees-3/

They offer more varieties than shown on the picture. I saw there Spartan and Discovery apple trees, and also a pear variety with a long name, which I do not remember now.

I am not sure if they are really on the dwarf M9 rootstock - they seemed pretty vigourous to me.

What do you think about those varieties, anyway?

[Bacchus]

Bought an Elstar, granny smith, sunburst cherry, opal plum, williams pear and jonagold (which wasnt advertised). Thats my fruit garden full now unless I take over another field...

[FB.]

Saw some fruit trees in Tesco this morning but didn't look at the price, although they've been sold at discount-level prices in previous years.