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Choosing fruit plants
Kathy28
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in Fruit & veg
Location - Cornwall.
We have a large, sunny southwest facing wall where we would like to grow fruit. However, it is prone to breezy conditions. Can anyone suggest fruit plants that are wind tolerant?
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Interested in fruits like - fig, gooseberry, grape - softer fruits.
hi Kathy,
i am in South Devon on the coast quite Windy from the sea but rarely frost... Our house wall faces south west and we grow peach and apricot. Before we errected a veranda we had plenty of fruit but had peach leaf curl. If you can protect in spring with a plastic sheet they should be trouble free.
Oh thank you - that's something for us to think about.
Have you thought about kiwi fruit?
*hi to all my wish list for xmas has been put on our notice board in kitchen 2types apples/1lemon / and would like to hope I can grow a dwalf orange ( live in durham in a dip between hills gets a bit windy but I have a **8 ft wall to stop most wind ) all I want now is for step sons to notice)
Last edited: 22 November 2016 08:39:16
Michael, i dont think an orange will be happy outside in Durham
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
hi dovefromabove thanks it was just a idea for the patio we have it full of flowers all year and something different no doubt some thin else will come into mind dove a question nothing untowards but did you used to be on the site that terry wogan put on radio gardeners click ? I had a book with about * pages of names on and yours seems to ring a bell Michael thanks
I did join a few gardening sites way back Michael, so it might have been me. I don't think I posted on there much. This site, with all it's idiosyncrasies, is still the best site for gardening knowledge and friendly conversation.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
how much space have you got? What about one of the patio cherries intended for pot growing? Very good for your health, cherries. Full of antioxidants.
Oranges and lemons need to be inside over winter.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.