"mogga" wrote in message
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Did anyone else see this? A group in Sheffield shaking trees to get
the fruit off and passing it on to local groups and charities.

I can't think of a single apple tree on public land where I live - am
I just not looking hard enough?

Should the govt plant a fruit tree for every person all around the UK?

Excellent idea! And get the MPs to dig the holes.

Mary


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"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

Mary Fisher writes
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.

I wonder what they think has happened to vegetables that they buy?
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Kay

"K" wrote in message
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Mary Fisher writes
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.

I wonder what they think has happened to vegetables that they buy?

Quite. And they sprun 'organically' grown anything.

Bu they don't eat many vegetables.

Another neighbour loves i when they go on holiday and ask her to water the
veg :-)

Mary