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what was the reason for lining the bed?
Its an old tile/slab crate so needed lining to hold the soil.
There may be fruit grafting hobby folk around your way or opportunityvia tree projects. For example, I got trees for £5 each from a local member of the Northern Fruit group. I also got more trees via a grafting workshop with The Orchard Project, plus a lot of scions I should graft onto rootstock, mentioning which reminds me I could do that job tomorrow.
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Ahhh good shout, there are a few specialist orchards not far although no grafting classes I’ve found yet. In Tring we have a big apple festival where they showcase the weird and wonderful so I’ll don my detective hat.
Sorry to keep spamming this thread but my lucky streak continues. The neighbouring plot holder (also a first timer) was rather savagely removing half of his raspberry canes so I made a spot decision to stick forty of them in what was to be the pumpkin patch. Now all of todays jobs will have to be done in the rain tomorrow but totally worth it.
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Nice, what was the reason for lining the bed?
We went to a posh garden centre to get some bits today but I swear the prices are high even for them. We wanted some fruit trees to espalier for our plot but they were £50 each and there was no way I was paying that.
Which made it all the more sweet when we stopped at Tescos and they had healthy looking saplings for £12 a pop. Bingo.