Aldi Fruit Trees Thursday 6th

A question about : Aldi Fruit Trees Thursday 6th

Title says it all really. The fruit trees are back in for tomorrow, twelve varieties listed HERE on their website although they often seem to have other varieties not listed.

They are cheap and cheerful. Experience shows they are quite well grafted (Homebase uses the same supplier, although that may not be saying much). The rootstocks are dwarfing or semi-dwarfing, leading to a 12 to 14 foot tree after eight years or so. I have a list of rootstocks used for the last 2 years somewhere that I'll try to look out if asked.

While I wouldn't use these trees to found an orchard that I wanted my grandkids to appreciate, they are excellent value for money, and I have grown quite a few over the last four years, all successfully. They've behaved nearly as well as the trees I have bought from proper orchards in Kent.

Do be fussy when you choose them, not all trees are equal. Also, I'd buy early, not leave it a week, partly because the best (or all) will go, nd partly 'cos Aldi isn't ideal storage for trees!

Best answers:

• Well, I've just been in to my local Aldi, and I'd have to say the trees weren't up to their usual quality, so they may have changed supplier. In particular, the grafting on the Czar plums was way below what I'd hope for. May just be a local problem, as there were quite a few empty spaces on the store shelves.
  They are still a good starter tree collection and, so long as you are fussy (there are normally several boxes to rummage through) and choose the best grafted and best branched trees, you'll be OK.
  However, if they have changed supplier, they may not be on the same rootstocks as previous years' trees, so my "little list" I garnered from Aldi HQ may not be accurate.
  Anyway, I'd still recommend them, but maybe not trumpet quite as much about their quality as I did in the first post!
• Prior to this have recently bought 4 cordon trees, apples and pears respectively and paid probably 6 times as much, however they have obviously been trained as such etc!
• I'm a bit wary of these trees.
  I bought a beautifully healthy bramley from either Aldi or lidl a couple of years ago. Its an amazing tree, it fruited in its first year and last year had a good eight big heavy fruits, incredible for a young tree. Especially as we hadn't planted the required pollinators, and while we weren't sure what we already had (or was in the near by small orchard) we cupouldn't believe we were lucky enough to have the right ones for this triploid (oops, typed diploid first time!) pollinator.
  But its not a bramley. . Its a huge apple, yes, but its dark, red and doesn't hold on cooking like a bramley.
  Its nice, but if you are bothered about varieties and choosing specific trees for purposes then, Frankly I'm a little wary.
  I understand there were some almonds last year, I was sort to miss them. We need nut trees and I'm not bothered about variety.
• The worst tree problem I ever encountered was at an "Apple Day" at a well-known reputable nursery.
  An older couple came in with a couple of trays of apples carefully wrapped up in separate sections for identification. They lived in a cottage some considerable distance from anywhere else and had planted an orchard; two each of each variety of apple from one of the discount supermarkets. They have very very little fruit until that year.
  When they opened the wrapping it was obvious even to me as an amateur the apples in separate sections (from each tree) were identical. Their specialist confirmed that they were all Bramley. Being triploid, it had needed pollen from two other varieties and given their location none had pollinated successfully until that year.
  They were upset although hubbie had suspected the diagnosis. It was agreed that the nursery would top-graft most of the trees that winter to remedy the situation.
• Hi all, I wonder if someone can help me?
  Today I bought a Kordia cherry tree from Aldi with the intention of planting it in a large tub. After searching for info on how to do this it seems I should have got a dwarf tree. Also the label on the tree says its self-fertile, but the info I've found says it's not...... Im confused :-(
• Thank you Daftyduck for the heads-up - I filled my little car with Aldi fruit trees on the way home from work this evening. I have been wanting to buy a Bramley apple tree for a while so was delighted to get one for only Ј3.99 - it's a lovely shape, with a good graft, and it's at least 6ft tall. I also bought the Morello Cherry, Opal Plum and Williams Pear trees, plus 9 of the tall raspberry canes.
  Inside the store they also had some lovely terracotta pots of herbs for Ј2.99 each, and I bought some thyme, sage, mint and lavender. I'm revamping my herb garden at the moment and although I normally grow everythign from seed, I thought these pots alone were worth the money (and each has a really big cushion of herbs).
• I thought I saw these on Wednesday night when I was passing by in car. I was going to get some on Thursday but thought they might get them back in later on in year. I was told by guy in allotments that they did have them on Wednesday and in fact they dont get them in often. Nipped down later Friday afternoon they nearly all gone.
  Managed to get two different apples the erst were cherries.
  Teach me to dilly dally. Didnt want to get much more until I get allotment sorted with weedkiller and rotavator
• Thanks OP for the early notice - I managed to squeeze in a trip first thing Thursday before dropping the kids off at nursery and already many were sold or in trolleys but I was able to pick up exactly what I wanted.
• I bought an opal plum about 3 years ago from Aldi. It h as rooted well and does look healthy. I think i have only had blossom once and that was in the Autumn ! I did some research and came up with the fact that the tree was too healthy! It is suggested that i damage the roots a bit to spur it into action but i am terrified of doing this in case i kill it!
• In that case , can i get an apple tree this year from aldi or do i need another opal plum?
• Popped into my Aldi and bought 6 raspberry canes, that's all I have space for in the garden.
  The standard of care for the herbs was poor, the sage was keeling right over due to lack of watering. The herbs are planted in plastic pots inserted into the terracotta, there's no drainage holes in the terracotta.
  My store also had 2L pot camellia in stock, again very dry. I took a chance at Ј5.99
• hiya i bought a cherry tree, will it be ok in a pot for a few months until i sort out a space
• I love aldi/Lidl fruit trees. I have bought them in the past. I would buy again if I needed any more. The ones that have already started fruiting are really nice fruit but I agree with one comment earlier on. I dont think they are what it said on the labels. Some are, some arent. Simplz.
• I bought 2 healthy looking apple trees (James Grieve and braeburn) and a Williams (?) pear tree. For Ј4 each I think they're a bargain and will be going in my garden this weekend.
  Lots of fruit bushes available too which looked good, once they're gone they're gone!