Aanee xxx

I’ve been reading up on Pixzee peach and it sounds good, but I really want to grow a fan trained specimen against a wall — I’m thinking of Rochester. This is the position I want to grow it in (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ralphaverbuch/3637325061/in/set-72157600225143515/) — to the left of the picture window you can see a small browny greenhouse against the wall; I will move the greenhouse and plant a fan trained fruit tree here. I’m just wavering on whether it should be a peach or a pear. My whole family loves pears but they are cheap and easy to buy; I fancied a peach because it’s a bit different, but I don’t look forward to controlling peach leaf curl with sprays, and I can’t find much information on whether “Avalon pride” — supposedly curl resistant — tastes any good. Anyway, I have contacted a nursery here in Devon to get their view. I may end up with a pear after all!

Thank you for the kind comments about the blog!

I bought some dwarf fruit trees from the grower in their first year and I bought some through the local nursery who got the same grower to hold them for a few years and they will fruit this year (one year after I got them). I am in Tasmania Australia so my conditions might be a bit different to yours. This grower is highly respected around Australia so I wont mind following his pruning regime and reading his articles.

Although it appears on my blog that I have a lot of room for trees …my house is surrounded by underground council piping and I cant grow trees on my two longest boundaries. sigh. I am putting in roses and climbers instead.

I ended up with……
2 Pixzee Peach and an American Peach called Okey Dokey which after some intial leaf curl is looking great. I sprayed it with seasol a liquid seaweed solution. Check for self pollination/fertile.

2 Stella Cherries, 1 Black Dwarf Mulberry, 2 Nectazee Nectarines, 10 Chilly Wack raspberries, 3 column apples (Ballerina variety..Bolero, Polka and Flamenko), a blueberry, an apricot, a Pear, 2 olives, a Brack fig and a Bacon Avocado (I keep these last two in pots because of their potential size and they fruit more in pots), several strawberries which have sent out heaps of new plants, several kiwi fruit, passionfruit and grapes.

I will add more as I can afford them as well as some different roses although I have had great success with cuttings.

Thanks for your comment and can I please apologize for calling you “Katie” on the Gardeners World blog? I noticed it afterwards and couldn’t edit my comment! It’s funny that you are doing the converse of what I’m doing. Can I persuade you to stick a rose into the ground among your flowers? There’s such infinite variety, I bet you will find something you can love (although I know some people find roses too granny-like). I did end up planting those carrots and parsnips the other night, and I’m going to hang in there until I love it. My kids are quite small, and I feel a bit of a responsibility to teach them how to turn seeds into food, in case that kind of thing should become a requirement rather than a nice-to-have in the future.