Lidl Gardening specials

Lidl are doing their gardening weekend special again . Have a look at their website for what's on offer this year. I bought a cherry tree last year that's just started to bud up. Although I did buy one of their cheap perennial packs and ended up spending 49p on a bag of dirt because the bare root was missing. Ah well, I hope someone got 2 and had a nice surprise.

 

Yes they are doing there gardening special again on the 6/3/08 I find them very good value for money some of the tools are a very good buy secateurs are just 99p and heavy duty ones �£2.99 some of the plants are ok but some you just have to have a good look at them and check them out

 

Craig, sorry to hear about your 'dirt', i had to smile though. At 49p you can't be to put out can you -?

I've just planted 2 shubs/bushes (?) from Lidl, actually it might have been Aldi One is a Hedgehog Rose & the other Tamarisk (?), they cost �£1.99 each i think, & the shoots are coming out already. The roots looked good too, although as you can tell I'm a beginner with all this :D . They're going to have a struggle though cos i'm getting hardly any sun in my garden yet & the blooming wind wont stop!.

Good luck with bargains, Craig & Nathan7.

Cheers

 

was in aldi last Sunday they had beautiful lemon trees (shrub) �£12-99, one really had a full size lemon,didn't get it though didn't think it would like being next to north sea

 

I just got myself a lovely small fig tree for �£2.50.

Some of the trees look excellent, just make sure it looks alive and thriving through the plastic. Poor things.

 

I had a look at the apple trees in Lidls, good quality and value for money, they had Jonah Gold, my favourie apple, but the reason I didn't pick one up was because it gave a list of pollenators it needed for fertilization so if none of these trees are in my area I presume it would not set fruit properly. Is this right? I know nothing about fruit trees. :confused:

 

Jonagold is what`s called a triploid, strongy, you don`t just want one other variety in your area belonging to the same pollination group, you want two. And I doubt very much if that`s going to happen.

 

Note that triploids will give a crop on their own, it will just be a lot smaller than if cross-pollinated.

 

If theres another apple tree within several hundred yards thats usually enough.