Dovefromabove

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Apple /Pear trees

Posted: 02/04/2013 at 21:49

This site has a list of suitable pollinators for Braeburn http://www.orangepippintrees.co.uk/pollinationchecker.aspx?v=1008 . Braeburn self fertile and will fruit without cross-pollination but yield will be heavier with a suitable tree nearby.

Conference is also self-fertile - the same website describes it as 'genuinely self fertile' and says that it does not need cross-pollination, and that has been my experience.

As for distance apart, without knowing which rootstock they're grafted onto we can't tell how large they will grow. Have a look here http://www.orangepippintrees.co.uk/articles/fruit-tree-spacing-guide - I think I'd assume they're on dwarf or semi-dwarf rootstocks.

FORKERS Sheds

Posted: 02/04/2013 at 21:33

Wish I had a shed ...................

MORNING FORKERS

Posted: 02/04/2013 at 21:04

Ooo- errr!!! Gippy tummy - got some different cough sweets - they had that Phenylalanine in them - spent the rest of the day wearing a furrow in the corridor running back and forth to the Ladies Won't have them again

Fork Handles

Posted: 02/04/2013 at 20:51

I need to get back into hellebores - I had a couple of lovely ones many years ago - I've picked up a couple in pots from the garden centre over the winter, but poor things then got covered with snow and although I know they're still alive I've not really looked at them since due to lurgy - but with the promise of warmer weather next week maybe I can get outside and plant them

Dry tips on house plants

Posted: 02/04/2013 at 20:14

Do you mist the leaves? Dry tips to the leaves of houseplants sometimes occur when the atmosphere is too dry for them - particularly likely at this time of year when the central heating's been one for much of the time.

Try misting them, and possibly standing the pots on a tray of pebbles and water - this will moisten the atmosphere around them. You won't cure the leaves that have the brown tips already, but hopefully you'll prevent any more appearing.

Help! What colour should I paint my fence?

Posted: 02/04/2013 at 20:08

I agree with Punkdoc - as someone trained in colour theory I would use strong colours to make features seem nearer and lighter colours to make them seem further away.

Apple /Pear trees

Posted: 02/04/2013 at 19:56

Do you know what varieties you have and what rootstocks they're grafted on to?

Using the back button

Posted: 02/04/2013 at 19:49

I did ask for a 'Back to the top' button at the bottom of each page - it would be so helpful, but it seems to have passed them by - I suppose they've had a lot on their plates.

MORNING FORKERS

Posted: 02/04/2013 at 15:26

Hi, just popping in on my phone as at work - didn't I say there would be sunshine when I went back to work? :-/

Tomato seedlings

Posted: 02/04/2013 at 07:57

You've no idea how bdooly cold it is here Italophile - and with no signs or forecast of warmer weather for at least 30 days ............ no idea when they'll be able to go out into the little growhouses .............. at this rate I'll have to send them back to you as teenagers to laze around in the Italian sunshine for the summer