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Originally posted by Scarlet View PostI've grown these for a couple of seasons and I love them( cheers VC!) but I don't think they are any lower maintenance than a tomato. They grow huge, 5-6ft and need staking and the sprawling branches need controlling. So very similar work to a tomato and they don't do as well outside.
I don't mind taking a pair of sec's to them every few weeks, but I don't want anything that needs the molycoddling, sucker hunting and all the other time the toms demanded. I'll plant it, site it, and ignore it - but if it starts becoming a nightmare I'll bin it It's not like I'm going to be short of other fruit plants this year ....
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Not all these will fruit this year due to age of plants, but ...
Apple - Jonagold and James Grieve
Fig - Brown Turkey
Cherry - Sunburst
Medlar
Persimmon
Blueberries - Bluecrop, Dixi, Gold Traub, Spartan (one each) and three Pink Lemonade
Wonderberry (Huckleberry)
Golden Pearls (Golden Huckleberry)
Strawberries - Yellow, Black, Blue, Wild Alpine White, and Giant Red varieties (80 plants total)
Raspberries
Barberries
Checkerberries (three bushes)
Jostaberry
Elderberry
Blackcurrant
Blue Sausage Fruit (Decaisnea Fargesii)
Inca Berries .... subject to space
Kiwi and Passion Fruit have been abandoned
.... I think that's it, but I might have forgotten something and they're all getting crammed into this tiny space (chaos at the mo due to full reshuffle) with some novelty veggies, herbs, edible flowers and so on ...
It all fits on paper, honest .... but we all know reality doesn't always follow suit
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Dwarf Pomegranate, and Purple Filbert! Knew there was something elseLast edited by AllInContainers; 10-02-2014, 11:51 AM.
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I couldn't be without my home grown tomatoes. I still have a whole freezer drawer full of them. The sungold are superb - I just plant them outside when the frost is over and leave them to it. I tie them to canes or posts as they grow and if they get too big and wild I nip the ends off the stems. I had literally hundreds of tomatoes off 4 plants grown outside last year, admittedly a very good year for tomatoes.
I also tried bush tomatoes (Totem and Bajaja) last year and found them far more trouble. The trusses were too heavy for the stems, so despite them being bushes I ended up having to stake them to keep them off the soil.A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
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