Allotment Vegetable Growing |
Saturday 21 November 2009 Allotment Diary |
Vegetable Seeds, Plants, Fruit and Nut Trees |
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Greengages
Fruit Trees, Nut Trees and Fruit BushesIf you are going to plant a tree or bush, then it is going to be there for some years. So it's well worth spending some time looking at the different varieties and going for something that will be productive and providing you with a good crop in years to come. Time spent to prepare the ground properly will repay you many times over. Greengage Mannings SelectionTaken from an ancient Greengage hedge on Ray Mannings' fruit farm at Willingham near Cambridge (home of Greengages), this superb selection will produce good crops of roundish, medium-sized, bright green fruit in August. The fruit are sweet and aromatic - good for cooking but also delicious eaten raw when really ripe. Price: £19.95 More Information from Dobies Greengage: Mannings SelectionTaken from an ancient Greengage hedge on Ray Mannnings' fruit farm at Willingham near Cambridge (home of Greengages), this superb selection will produce good crops of roundish, medium-sized, bright green fruit in August. The fruit are sweet and aromatic. Price: £19.95 More Information from Suttons Seeds Gage Reine Claude D'OreeDelicious fresh from the tree A beautiful gage plum, in the continental style, that are ready from mid August. The fruits are larger than greengages and ripen to a golden green tinged with pink, and the flesh has a honey sweetness that is really best enjoyed straight from the tree - delicious! Grafted on St Julien A rootstock which is semi-dwarfing, providing a medium sized tree of 2-2.5m (7-8'). Price: £19.95 More Information from Dobies Greengage FruitAn original style greengage plum, with attractive yellow/green fruits of the sweetest of flavours. Trees crop regularly producing good sized fruit that is ready to harvest in August. Price: £19.99 More Information from Thompson & Morgan
Please note that all prices and descriptions on this site are believed correct but should be confirmed on the relevant site prior to order. Please let me know if you find an error via the contact page Copyright Information: The Images, seed Descriptions and Titles on this page are used with permission of the copyright holders - Dobies Seeds, Suttons Seeds, Alan Titchmarsh Seeds, Thompson & Morgan
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