Oooh, shiny, shiny fruit!
Mar. 25th, 2014 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnSomeone tell me I don't need to buy six Chilean Guava bushes. I am such a sucker for exotic fruits! And six for a tenner!!!
There's probably an argument I should instead, buy a friend for my Actinidia Arguta. In theory, that Actinidia is supposed to be the variety 'Issai' which is smaller than most Actinidias, and self fertile. In practice, mine is a honking great thing that is yet to set fruit, despite its ideal sunny, well drained position in mildly acid soil - and I am starting to think that Thompson and Morgan have yet again screwed things up and have sent me one of the other Actinidias that is not self fertile.
I now chuck all T& M catalogues straight in the recycling bag : I have had way too many gardening disappointments from them. But the Chilean Guavas are from Suttons. I have been less disappointed with them, so far as I recall.
There's probably an argument I should instead, buy a friend for my Actinidia Arguta. In theory, that Actinidia is supposed to be the variety 'Issai' which is smaller than most Actinidias, and self fertile. In practice, mine is a honking great thing that is yet to set fruit, despite its ideal sunny, well drained position in mildly acid soil - and I am starting to think that Thompson and Morgan have yet again screwed things up and have sent me one of the other Actinidias that is not self fertile.
I now chuck all T& M catalogues straight in the recycling bag : I have had way too many gardening disappointments from them. But the Chilean Guavas are from Suttons. I have been less disappointed with them, so far as I recall.
