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Old 04-05-2005, 03:26 PM
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Remember those blueberries from Sainsburys that were near the sell by date?
Squished some of them onto kitchen paper and spread the result on compost in
a seed tray.
Left it on a windowsill till signs of life then transferred it to the
greenhouse.
Reckon there's at least fifty seedlings-look healthy. Cheaper than the £8.95
I paid per bush at the garden centre.
Watch this space.
DaveK.


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Old 04-05-2005, 06:39 PM
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Remember those blueberries from Sainsburys that were near the sell by
date?
Squished some of them onto kitchen paper and spread the result on compost
in a seed tray.
Left it on a windowsill till signs of life then transferred it to the
greenhouse.
Reckon there's at least fifty seedlings-look healthy. Cheaper than the
£8.95 I paid per bush at the garden centre.
Watch this space.
DaveK.


Will be interesting to see how long it takes until they are as large as the
ones you saw. Are they bb's fast growers? I have a particular viburnum
(fantastic scent) that is incredibly slow growing so I'm not surprised when
I see it on sale at about £20 for a small plant, mine has taken about 10
years to get to 3ft high.

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Will be interesting to see how long it takes until they are as large as
the ones you saw. Are they bb's fast growers? I have a particular viburnum
(fantastic scent) that is incredibly slow growing so I'm not surprised
when I see it on sale at about £20 for a small plant, mine has taken about
10 years to get to 3ft high.

Well they've reached an inch in about four weeks so at that rate they'll be
two feet high in spring 2007.
;-)
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Tumbleweed wrote or quoted:

Will be interesting to see how long it takes until they are as large as the
ones you saw. Are they bb's fast growers? I have a particular viburnum
(fantastic scent) that is incredibly slow growing so I'm not surprised when
I see it on sale at about ?20 for a small plant, mine has taken about 10
years to get to 3ft high.


I think viburnums can be a bit different.

Blueberrys are not necessarily /that/ steep. I bought a Blueberry bush
recently - from:

http://www.hedging.co.uk/acatalog/In..._23.html#10553

They have three varieties - for 3.75 UKP (plus postage) each - for a two
foot tall blueberry in my case. Big and cheap - IMO.

Not quite as cheap as the proposed "Sainsburys" approach - but you get a
grown plant - and can be confident that it's a reasonable cultivar.
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Tumbleweed wrote or quoted:

Will be interesting to see how long it takes until they are as large as the
ones you saw. Are they bb's fast growers? I have a particular viburnum
(fantastic scent) that is incredibly slow growing so I'm not surprised when
I see it on sale at about ?20 for a small plant, mine has taken about 10
years to get to 3ft high.


I think viburnums can be a bit different.

Blueberrys are not necessarily /that/ steep. I bought a Blueberry bush
recently - from:

http://www.hedging.co.uk/acatalog/In..._23.html#10553

They have three varieties - for 3.75 UKP (plus postage) each - for a two
foot tall blueberry in my case. Big and cheap - IMO.


Hmm. I bought 4 blueberries (2 each of Herbert and Berkeley, I think)
from there. They were quite small - probably no more than 9" including
the small pots. They looked as if they were a year or two or three old
- but almost bonsaied. One of the varieties has quite a thick (by
comparison) main woody stalk with little bits of growth off it. This
seemed to be very susceptible to white mildew (perhaps it got a bit dry
during posting - certainly, the raspberry canes that came at the same
time did and less than half of them have even started to show any new
growth yet despite being put in raspberry heaven). A quick squirt of
some proprietary unfungal sorted it out - but none of the plants are
very active Certainly *way* short of 2'!). Maybe I got end of season
runts

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Blueberrys are not necessarily /that/ steep. I bought a Blueberry bush
recently - from:

http://www.hedging.co.uk/acatalog/In..._23.html#10553

They have three varieties - for 3.75 UKP (plus postage) each - for a two
foot tall blueberry in my case. Big and cheap - IMO.


Hmm. I bought 4 blueberries (2 each of Herbert and Berkeley, I think)
from there. They were quite small - probably no more than 9" including
the small pots. They looked as if they were a year or two or three old
- but almost bonsaied. One of the varieties has quite a thick (by
comparison) main woody stalk with little bits of growth off it. This
seemed to be very susceptible to white mildew (perhaps it got a bit dry
during posting - certainly, the raspberry canes that came at the same
time did and less than half of them have even started to show any new
growth yet despite being put in raspberry heaven). A quick squirt of
some proprietary unfungal sorted it out - but none of the plants are
very active Certainly *way* short of 2'!). Maybe I got end of season
runts


Maybe I was lucky, then.

I got a grape vine, a chokeberry, a white mulberry and a blueberry.

All are doing well, except the mulberry - which only has a half-dozen
buds on it - and they are only just starting to open up.

Still, a slow start is probably expected with a bare root plant.

Delivery time was not great - but I was very pleased with the plants,
their sizes and their prices.
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In article , Tim Tyler writes
newsb wrote or quoted:
In article , Tim Tyler writes


Blueberrys are not necessarily /that/ steep. I bought a Blueberry bush
recently - from:

http://www.hedging.co.uk/acatalog/In..._23.html#10553

They have three varieties - for 3.75 UKP (plus postage) each - for a two
foot tall blueberry in my case. Big and cheap - IMO.


Hmm. I bought 4 blueberries (2 each of Herbert and Berkeley, I think)
from there. They were quite small - probably no more than 9" including
the small pots. They looked as if they were a year or two or three old
- but almost bonsaied. One of the varieties has quite a thick (by
comparison) main woody stalk with little bits of growth off it. This
seemed to be very susceptible to white mildew (perhaps it got a bit dry
during posting - certainly, the raspberry canes that came at the same
time did and less than half of them have even started to show any new
growth yet despite being put in raspberry heaven). A quick squirt of
some proprietary unfungal sorted it out - but none of the plants are
very active Certainly *way* short of 2'!). Maybe I got end of season
runts


Maybe I was lucky, then.

I got a grape vine, a chokeberry, a white mulberry and a blueberry.

Why are you interested in growing a *white* mulberry?

All are doing well, except the mulberry - which only has a half-dozen
buds on it - and they are only just starting to open up.

They are one of the last trees to come into leaf.
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I got a grape vine, a chokeberry, a white mulberry and a blueberry.


Why are you interested in growing a *white* mulberry?


Short answer to that is: I'm mulberry crazy! ;-)

http://timtyler.org/fruit/mulberry/

I already have a number of mulberry plants grown from seeds and
cuttings on the go - but I don't have any other white mulberries.
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Kay wrote or quoted:
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I got a grape vine, a chokeberry, a white mulberry and a blueberry.


Why are you interested in growing a *white* mulberry?


Short answer to that is: I'm mulberry crazy! ;-)

http://timtyler.org/fruit/mulberry/


Good pics. Your fruit is denser than mine (ie more to the branch).
Why does so much of my fruit fall when still unripe? I've come to the
conclusions it's cats romping about in the tree and knocking off the
fruit.

I already have a number of mulberry plants grown from seeds and
cuttings on the go - but I don't have any other white mulberries.


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