Hello and Welcome YerMan exciting that you got a plot, like seeing new plots great picture - you could clear around the fruit tree and add mulch worth asking your plot neighbours what the tree is - will be nice when it blossoms - not good to prune wet ( if is a cherry)
You have a long way to go, if reading all the way through both threads, as you mainly have grass probably - couch grass use a fork to dig out to help clear the roots with out breaking them
Questions- where abouts are you?
what sized plot do you have?
What is the little tree in your picture in the black bag?
YerMan , I agree it looks like a cherry tree , keep it trimmed as they can grow really large and put out suckers , you are right to just do a bit at a time
Hello everybody, got back home today , hoping to go to plot on Saturday, subject to weather
Gardengirl , the allotment association gets rat poison from the farmer that owns the site , very effective, not the sort you can buy in the shops , I would see if your association get any supplied
GWRS Hello and welcome back, I don't like to be horrible like wildlife, I don't mind rats just need to clear shed out and block hole up then it will find somewhere else to go, they do sell it in allotment shop shut for another week - rather just let it get out of shed
Apples are the easiest. I also have pears but they don't crop reliably, cherries which need netting or pigeons scoff the lot (even when the cherries are still green!) and various plums, the best of which is a Japanese plum which crops in July. Apart from the apples, all of my most reliable fruit comes from bushes rather than trees.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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Looking at the bark, I think it may be a cherry tree.
Hello and Welcome YerMan exciting that you got a plot, like seeing new plots great picture - you could clear around the fruit tree and add mulch worth asking your plot neighbours what the tree is - will be nice when it blossoms - not good to prune wet ( if is a cherry)
You have a long way to go, if reading all the way through both threads, as you mainly have grass probably - couch grass use a fork to dig out to help clear the roots with out breaking them
Questions - where abouts are you?
what sized plot do you have?
What is the little tree in your picture in the black bag?
Hello went to the allotment yesterday dig a bit of digging in the trial bed hole - soil more mucker in the hole, better up the top of it
Today done a bit of filling in the hole and clearing out the weeds lots of couch grass spread through the skip sheet
Fed the birds in the garden and the rat I seem to have in my small shed which I keep the bird food and bits in
GWRS hope you enjoying Swindon
anyone else go to the allotment yet?
YerMan , I agree it looks like a cherry tree , keep it trimmed as they can grow really large and put out suckers , you are right to just do a bit at a time
Hello everybody, got back home today , hoping to go to plot on Saturday, subject to weather
Gardengirl , the allotment association gets rat poison from the farmer that owns the site , very effective, not the sort you can buy in the shops , I would see if your association get any supplied
Happy New year
GWRS Hello and welcome back, I don't like to be horrible like wildlife, I don't mind rats just need to clear shed out and block hole up then it will find somewhere else to go, they do sell it in allotment shop shut for another week - rather just let it get out of shed
Victoria sponge now has an allotment same time as YerMan she has added pictures http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/the-potting-shed/vics-allotment-adventures/990774-2.html#latest
Went to homebase they have some fruit trees in the sale for 12 but they are quite tall, got lots of paint
Done some painting of scaffold boards today as nice and warm today watched a robin out side singing away so cute
Gardengirl, rats and mice don't bother me either but o/h can't stand them !!!
Had a holiday in a French farm house , I was cutting wood in barn and I could hear the scream from the house when she found a mouse
Scroggin that is brilliant nice to get to the plot and good going getting another bed dug
Fog like mad out today my paint still wet cause of it and wood has got wet may have to re do somewhen
question - what fruit trees do any of you have on your plots?
Me trying to think about fruit trees to have
Apples are the easiest. I also have pears but they don't crop reliably, cherries which need netting or pigeons scoff the lot (even when the cherries are still green!) and various plums, the best of which is a Japanese plum which crops in July. Apart from the apples, all of my most reliable fruit comes from bushes rather than trees.