"echinosum" wrote in message
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Tim Perry;813989 Wrote:
I remember seeing fruit trees planted along the roadside in Germany,
could work, but the idea of some elderly lady toddling along the M25
with a carrier bag on her zimmer frame to get a handful of apples
makes
me shudder.
Fruit trees, especially apples, are common roadside trees in the Czech
republic, quiet country roads not motorways though. Unlike British
people, many Czechs can actually be bothered to go out and pick them.
Indeed don't grow fruit too close to your fence in that country if you
want to eat it yourself - fruit within reach of passers-by is
considered fair game. In Britain, many people don't even seem to be
bothered to pick the fruit in their own garden.

No, it's crazy. What's worse is that a neighbour bought and got his lady to
plant and build frames for runner beans for year and never picked them. He
bought a plastic greenhouse and she grew tomatoes and they never ate them.
Their beautiful pear tree produces succulent fruit - which drops to the
ground.

I asked why - cats, apparently, they couldn't bear the thought of eating
things which had been sprayed.

The only things she grows and they eat is onions!

Mary




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echinosum