Potting medium for dwarf fruit trees?

Hi all!! I have just ordered some dwarf fruit trees (apple,pear,plumb and cherry) for my garde, and as my back garden is paved they will be going in pots along with every thing else. Ive been and bought some large 55l pots today but I am just wanting to no what would be the best potting mix to use. The video on the web site I ordered them from suggests using compost but I am wondering weather potting soil would be more appropriate if so which one? Any advise would be much appreciated.
Kind regards
Dan

 

Here's some info that should be helpful.
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=321

 

Hey thanks for that very informative link

 

You're welcome! Post some pics for us all to gawp at. I grow loads of stuff in containers and the fruit trees sound interesting. You can mulch the containers with decorative gravel which helps keep weeds down and from drying out so fast as well as making them look tidy.

 

When they arrive I will get some pics up but they wont be much to see as they will be arriving in a dormant state. But I will post progress pics for spring next year too.

 

Super! It will be interesting to see how they get on. What else do you grow?

 

This is my first year growing if I'm honest. I attempted a vegetable patch in my front garden which I planned to grow carrots onions and sweet corn the slugs got to the onions and carrots while they were still very small. But the sweet corn is doing brill. If the frosts hold off for another couple of weeks I should be harvesting!!!
In my back yard (were the fruit trees are going) I have grown strawberries,broad beans,peas and in the mini green house I have grown tomatoes sweet peppers chilli peppers and cayenne peppers. I also have many pots and fence mounted containers with roses fuschia and loads of bedding plants in. Oh I also have an Acer palmatum blood good and some very cool mystic fantasy dahlias. And in the house I have 4 different kinds of bonsai trees which I am learning to train and a few orchids

 

What do you grow?

 

I bet you're chuffed! It sounds like you've done wonderfully for it being your first try. The veg is always nicer than store bought stuff. What are you planning for next year? I've mainly got ornamental stuff, trees, ferns, hostas, palms, some herbs, grasses etc. I've got strawberries too but the got wrecked by slugs this year. I'm waiting for an allotment to become available and then I want an asparagus bed, onions, garlic, blackberries, peas, beans, and maybe a couple of dwarf fruit trees too. It's all fun!

 

Yeh was well chuffed. Was a bit gutted about the carrots and onions damn slugs lol. Next year I'm planning on growing potatoes peas beans carrots onions garlic cabbage brocoll cauliflower sprouts lettuce raddish erm think that's it put will prob add to that list lol I've not done a final list yet. all will be grown in containers as well, as my veg patch in front garden is now a rockery with grass and a perennial border. And the patch were the corn is will be a flower bed as we will be trying to sell the house next year. I'm also thinking of getting an allotment but not sure if I will have the time as I work away from time to time and work long hours. I'm trying to talk family members into getting involved though. It is all good fun never thought I'd get the growing bug like I have

 

Oh it's as addicting as any drug!! Get some netting to cover your brassicas or the cabbage whites will have them! Have you got raised beds or individual containers?? How did you family like the fresh veg? I'm hoping my hubby will pitch in once we get the allotment. I think he might find it more interesting if he can shovel it into his gob. LOL!!

 

No raised beds it will all be grown in separate containers. I didn't have much of a crop but the fam enjoyed what we did have. My little girl is 3 and didn't like tomatoes until she grew them with me now she will eat them which is good. I've found a company online that sell frames and netting to protect my brassicas so will probably invest in one of those

 

I buy from this website quite a bit.
http://www.greenfingers.com/
They have decent stuff and fairly good prices. It's worth having a look every now and then to check out their sale and clearance items. I've never ordered their plants though.