Hi Evan, I am looking to trade scion. My profile lists the varieties that I have, but I have also added jordan russet and roxbury russet, baldwin. If you are open to swapping varieties that would be great. I have some grape varieties also.

I just bought a bloom fertilizer- different brand,what they had- and never thought of using them to get young tropical fruit tree's to get- to- it. Learned something new.

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Thanks for the info! That bit seems to be missing from the label. Espalliering is the only way I can grow fruit trees here - I'm not allowed to dig up the lawn :( but, on the good side, our property is heavily terraced with 3x 7ft high retaining walls which provide a really good framework for the trees! I'm in my second year of it, so we'll see if I still find it easy in the next few years! I thought it would be really difficult too but I flogged Mums Yates Garden Guide and followed that (my version has absolutely useless info so I'm currently hunting for one printed from between 1950-1960). I've found that you treat the trees a bit like a grapevine, just not so brutally! - train the main trunk and shoots along guides and trim out any unwanted shoots. Oh rats, that just reminded me I must trim the grapevine, again. We got about 1 1/2 days of wind rain, and fantastic lightning displays. I hate it when the house starts shaking with the thunder though! Didn't get any hail in Hamilton, well, not where we are anyway, but surrounding districts got hit pretty hard. Wind nad rain knocked all my tomatoes over (none broken though), so I've been out restaking and retying them up. Last night was so cold I nearly pulled the winter blankets out again! As for watering, we mulched heavily over Queens Birthday weekend and several weekends in between then and now. Plus I'm changing my gardening style to no dig gardening - seems to be working so far! Have found that it's been brilliant as looking back at last years gardening diary, I'd been watering every other day for about a month all ready (plus I haven't had to do any major weeding!) All I've had to do so far is water in newly planted seedlings/plants and my pots. I guess time will tell over Jan/Feb if my experimenting will pay off. I'm betting that it won't be long till the Council bring in metered water like what Auckland has. Have fun gardening! GF