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Hi everybody I'm a newbie to everything, Never grown Fruit and Veg before, apart from when I acquired one solitary blackcurrant bush in a back garden which was left behind by previous tenants, so I really don't know very much at all. My problem is that I have just got my allotment and there are two mature cherry trees on the plot which havnt bared fruit at all, apparently there was no blossom on them either. There is also a Victoria plum heavily ladened with rotting plums and the leaves have like a brown rust on them. The plot has been left for some period of time (last tenant was evicted for non cultivation) and is in quite a state, as you can imagine, I don't want to lose the trees so if anybody out there as any advice it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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Nope...know nothing about fruit....newbie myself!! However...try the search facility and I bet someone knows!!

Welcome anyway!! ;D

Hi Chuff,

Know nothing about cherries sorry, but I inherited a big plum tree which had very little fruit and what there was was impossible to get at. I pondered long and hard, but decided that it had to go (this in itself was a job and a half), I've been amazed by how much room has been made by getting rid of it and how much light it blocked. I have bought a new plum (and a greengage, cherry and pear) all on dwarfing rootstocks to replace the old plum and planted then in an "orchard" area I'm creating - my plot is actually 2 allotments joined together so I've plenty space.
Good luck with your plot.

Cherries flower quite early, so possibly the weather at the time was too cold for pollination this year; that happened to my plums. You have to net cherries to protect the fruit from the birds if you want a decent crop; what size are they? The brown rust on the leaves of the plum could be several things; can you provide a pic or a detailed description? My neighbour has a tree which is covered in mouldy plums every year; I'm not sure whether this is a disease or whether they just need picking. They're lovely plums ( I think they're Purple Pershore) but there are an awful lot of them.

Hi Chuff

Welcome

Regards

MikeB

Hello, I can't really help with the question, but I just got my allotment a week ago today actually  ;D so wanted to say hello  :)

Hello to you too Linda32

Hi to everybody and thanks for the input. The cherry trees have got to be at least 15 feet, its hard to say, could be less. I will take some close up pics of the plum tree so that you can see what  the problem is. Thanks once again. Chuff ;D

hi chuff

you should check out Brogdale-they hold the national collection of fruit trees - they may well hold the a's to your q's

http://www.brogdale.org/index.html

chloe

Check your allotment contract as mine says that you carnt fell or cut back any trees on my lottie. :-[

:)Our new,overgown,undug allotment has a pear tree! As we have just taken it on I hope it survives as I hope to find a partridge in it at Christmas! There are some pears on it but I think it needs a bit of T.L.C and the string taken off that seems to be holding a branch up off the ground! Hope u find the advice your looking for! :-*