Walmart got in a new rack of grapes for sale. Says they are for wine. Names of grapes are Chardonnay, Merlot, Cabernet, Pinot Gris etc.
Dollar General got a nice rack of heirloom seeds. Fordhook Farms (burpee).
I picked up a pack of Matts Wild Cherry and some Amaranth. They had a pumpkin, cantaloupe and watermelon that i should have bought. cant remember the names. $1 per seed pack. Lots of seeds in the package.
A glutton for punishment . I just couldn’t resist 75% off of 50% off.
12 trees and a butterfly bush for $ 55.21 including tax.
Went back the next morning for crabapples.
A lot of watering in my future, less for Rural King.
Walmart today had some apple and peach 3/4 inch caliper wipes, 6 to 7 ft tall for $15.97. Some had branches and some didn’t. I took one for an apple graft I want to do. Apples were Honeycrisp and Gala.
My local walmart has a shipper with bagged figs. A few tags got left on by mistake and the tag says Double A Vineyards. I bought a VDB fig for $10 and it had a very nice root system as well as a nice thick green canes with swolen buds. Double A sells them for $15 each on their site… Also the shipper comes with Olympic and and CH figs… same as what is on Double A website.
Lowes has some Brandywine purple rasps… these are getting hard to find online and a fair price at $10 if these interest someone.
Some Lowes and some Walmarts carry Ebony King thorned blackberries… usually the high volume ones. I saw them at both this year.
My menards added Sunshine products this year… i picked up a couple of bags of Sunshine Mix 4 and a a couple of bales of peat.
Waiting to see what Aldi offers this year… sometimes they have hard to find bluebs.
Rural King- i picked up an Orient Pear… and passed again on Harvester Peach. I think eventually i will get one.
Walmart- depending on your location Chestnut Hill Nursery will be sending persimmons and mulbs etc in April/May etc.
I got a good deal on some huge J plum trees from Kroger last week. They had all stone fruits this year, none of the usual grocery store apples.
Chestnut Hill sells to Rural King here, if they have a good deal on persimmons again, I may pick some up to graft later.
Found 9.99 $ Sweetheart blueberry at Lidl(claims to produces 2 crops in temperate climates). I got Patriot last year from them, and the plant produced a good amount of berries(older plant)
They also had kiwi, in similar price range.
Southern States has many fruit varities that include jujube(li, lang, Shanxi li etc), asian pears(20th century, and there were more), apples, seckel pear and other varities, persimmon, poms, cherries, Figs…plants are fruiting age and the price ranges from 70 -99$ but these are huge plants and I think worth it, if one does not want to wait a few years. Blueberries are I think $30 (could be wrong) and they are large plants.
