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Random shopping purchase

Pam123

Pam123

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Wondering if it's just me making a random purchase when doing the normal food shop ? today we went to Morrisons to get a few bits
I forgot for the weekend, and ended up buying a 7ft pear tree, I wanted something big for an empty corner that needs filling at the side of the new shed, so we now have a Williams pear tree, ive no idea how long it will be before it will have fruit or how to look after it.
 
helli said:
The advantage (or disadvantage whichever way you think about it) of walking to the supermarket is I can't be tempted to buy 7 feet trees.
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my hubby hate shopping as I do tend to buy things
paultrose said:
That is random! Lol

Can visulise your reciept...

Eggs
Milk
Cheese
7 foot tree
Loo roll
Washing up liquid

:rofl::rofl::rofl:
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we had a job getting it in the car.
 
Pam123 said:
we had a job getting it in the car.
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Wife once impulse bought a tree....was only about 5 foot........then she said wheres it going to go in the car?......i made her sit in the back....opened the sun roof and put it on her seat :rofl:
 
Pam123 said:
Wondering if it's just me making a random purchase when doing the normal food shop ? today we went to Morrisons to get a few bits
I forgot for the weekend, and ended up buying a 7ft pear tree, I wanted something big for an empty corner that needs filling at the side of the new shed, so we now have a Williams pear tree, ive no idea how long it will be before it will have fruit or how to look after it.
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If it was on a dwarfing root stock, it will probably fruit this y
Pam123 said:
Wondering if it's just me making a random purchase when doing the normal food shop ? today we went to Morrisons to get a few bits
I forgot for the weekend, and ended up buying a 7ft pear tree, I wanted something big for an empty corner that needs filling at the side of the new shed, so we now have a Williams pear tree, ive no idea how long it will be before it will have fruit or how to look after it.
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Probably fruit quickly if on a dwarfing root stock, but would do better with a fertilsation chum
 
Tdm said:
If it was on a dwarfing root stock, it will probably fruit this y
Probably fruit quickly if on a dwarfing root stock, but would do better with a fertilsation chum
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thanks for your post I am not sure what it is but will go and see what info is on the label
 
Pam123 said:
thanks for your post I am not sure what it is but will go and see what info is on the label
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Some fruit trees need to be cross pollinated from another tree. Apparently a Williams pear is partly self-fertile, ie, bees can pollinate it from other flowers on the same tree, but it has more fruit if there’s another pear tree in a neighbours garden (or your own) and yours gets pollen deposited on it from that tree.
 
I hope you have as much success with your pear tree as my random purchase of an apricot tree from Lidl about 10 years ago although mine was a better bargain as I got it for under a fiver. Never dreamed it would produce fruit in our climate this far north and right in the bottom of the valley as I am where we get late hard frosts, but it has thrived and produces plenty of very juicy fruit the size of small oranges and easily twice the size of normal apricots that you buy in the shops. Mind you I have failed to get a single pear from the pear tree I bought a few years ago. However once planted, it hasn't received the same level of TLC the apricot has.
 
Pam123 said:
my hubby hate shopping as I do tend to buy things
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It's the other way around with us.
I go with a list, want to get my shopping and get out as quickly as possible.
My partner ignores the list, spends (what feels like) hours choosing meat for his sandwiches or nuts for snacking or ... and checks out everything in Lidl's centre aisle.
I can't win though, I get frustrated when he joins me and I get frustrated if he doesn't as he expects me to do all the shopping myself.
I don't like shopping but I justify it as exercise and a reason to leave the house (we both work from home so could feel trapped).

I look forward to reading about your purchase next week
 
rebrascora said:
I hope you have as much success with your pear tree as my random purchase of an apricot tree from Lidl about 10 years ago although mine was a better bargain as I got it for under a fiver. Never dreamed it would produce fruit in our climate this far north and right in the bottom of the valley as I am where we get late hard frosts, but it has thrived and produces plenty of very juicy fruit the size of small oranges and easily twice the size of normal apricots that you buy in the shops. Mind you I have failed to get a single pear from the pear tree I bought a few years ago. However once planted, it hasn't received the same level of TLC the apricot has.
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Oh I love apricots this just might be a new venture for me.
 
helli said:
It's the other way around with us.
I go with a list, want to get my shopping and get out as quickly as possible.
My partner ignores the list, spends (what feels like) hours choosing meat for his sandwiches or nuts for snacking or ... and checks out everything in Lidl's centre aisle.
I can't win though, I get frustrated when he joins me and I get frustrated if he doesn't as he expects me to do all the shopping myself.
I don't like shopping but I justify it as exercise and a reason to leave the house (we both work from home so could feel trapped).

I look forward to reading about your purchase next week
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your partner sounds like me, its my husbands fault we got the tree, we went to our local indoor market to buy some cheese he likes its expensive but as he puts it, not the plastic stuff from the supermarket, I wanted some mushroom for tea and he refused to buy loose ones at the market because they didn't have a price on the counter, so he said he we will stop at Morrisons on the way home.
 
Similar, as I went to Wilkinson about 12 years ago and they had some tree ferns for £40. They were a lot more expensive in the garden centre so I bought one. When I got out of the store, I remembered I had walked into town so had to ring hubby to pick me up!
 
rebrascora said:
I hope you have as much success with your pear tree as my random purchase of an apricot tree from Lidl about 10 years ago although mine was a better bargain as I got it for under a fiver. Never dreamed it would produce fruit in our climate this far north and right in the bottom of the valley as I am where we get late hard frosts, but it has thrived and produces plenty of very juicy fruit the size of small oranges and easily twice the size of normal apricots that you buy in the shops. Mind you I have failed to get a single pear from the pear tree I bought a few years ago. However once planted, it hasn't received the same level of TLC the apricot has.
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Mr Eggy bought a Bramley apple tree in Aldi for £6, probably about 10 years ago too. We put it against the garden wall and trained it to be an espalier. Some years we get six apples, some years we get 106! This year it’s looking amazing. Fingers crossed for something between 6 and 106!
 

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eggyg said:
Mr Eggy bought a Bramley apple tree in Aldi for £6, probably about 10 years ago too. We put it against the garden wall and trained it to be an espalier. Some years we get six apples, some years we get 106! This year it’s looking amazing. Fingers crossed for something between 6 and 106!
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WOW that's amazing
 
We have what's supposed to be one of those pear trees that bear fruit on the small trunk. Hubby has allowed it to sprout branches. It's been covered in blossom last year and this, but no fruit. The apple tree that came in the same "bundle" (which is now spindly and 7ft tall), by contrast has had hardly any blossom but last year bore 5 bright red and very sour apples.

We are as bad as each other in supermarkets, coming home with all manner of stuff that was not on any list.
 
Pam123 said:
Wondering if it's just me making a random purchase when doing the normal food shop ? today we went to Morrisons to get a few bits
I forgot for the weekend, and ended up buying a 7ft pear tree, I wanted something big for an empty corner that needs filling at the side of the new shed, so we now have a Williams pear tree, ive no idea how long it will be before it will have fruit or how to look after it.
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William's pears are partially self fertile so you should be OK but better if there are other pear trees which will be in flower at the same time in a garden nearby.
It may not fruit this year but it will depend on how old the tree actually is. They are nice pears, pears are better picked when under ripe and allowed to ripen off the tree. Once they get ripe on the tree they attract wasps but otherwise seem to be fairly free of pests.
Good luck with it.
 
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