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06-03-2006, 07:25 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 5 Mar 2006 22:16:57 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:

|Sloes do not survive where I live. Yorkshire pennines :-(
|
|Yer whaa? Clapham, Tutin and Warberg say that they grow naturally
|up to 1360 feet in Yorkshire, and as far north as Sunderland. If
|you can't grow sloes, then you are going to have the devil of a
|job finding much that WILL grow!
|
|Yes, really. They will grow on nearly bare chalk, very acid soils,
|rich soils, poor soils, dry soils and fairly wet soils, and are
|as hardy as almost anything (but you lose the crop from late frosts).

That's interesting, I may try them.
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