Soft fruit

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MrsPea

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Soft fruit
« on: January 31, 2016, 17:27 »
We've just recently made a new fruit bed with Raspberry's , logonberrys, tayberrys also a few blueberry bushes but i need some else to fill a space has any one got any idears what else i could plant with them ??
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Re: Soft fruit
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2016, 17:38 »
Gooseberries ? - if you can source some thornless ones they make like a lot more comfortable...

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Re: Soft fruit
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2016, 17:46 »
Gooseberries. An alternative to Baldy's suggestion of getting a thornless one, I grow mine as fans on post and wires. Easy to pick without shredding your hands and once you get the hang of it the pruning is easy and very structured so you don't skimp on it, therefore getting fewer but larger and sweeter fruits.

Blackcurrants.

Strawberries.

Put some posts up for Kiwi. I'm planting some of the small, hairless ones (Issai and Jumbo) this year.

Likewise for a vine.

Honeyberry is next on my list, apparently fruits very early.

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Re: Soft fruit
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2016, 23:39 »
We've just recently made a new fruit bed with Raspberry's , logonberrys, tayberrys also a few blueberry bushes but i need some else to fill a space has any one got any idears what else i could plant with them ??

Whatever you decide on just make sure that the fruit ends up in your mouth and not inside the local bird population.
In summer the birds get out of bed long before we do and they just love soft fruit!

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MrsPea

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Re: Soft fruit
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2016, 08:29 »
We've just recently made a new fruit bed with Raspberry's , logonberrys, tayberrys also a few blueberry bushes but i need some else to fill a space has any one got any idears what else i could plant with them ??

Whatever you decide on just make sure that the fruit ends up in your mouth and not inside the local bird population.
In summer the birds get out of bed long before we do and they just love soft fruit!

Thank you for that, hopefully i shall remember to cover it. :)

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Re: Soft fruit
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2016, 12:29 »
Were you only after cane fruit? Wineberry, thornless blackberry

What abouts currants? red, black, white and jostaberry


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MrsPea

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Re: Soft fruit
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2016, 18:05 »
Just to let you know we've been out today and brought a Blackcurrant ' Big Ben', that will finish of my fruit bed. The plant is 2 years old so i might get a bit of fruit this year.Shall let you know later in the season.  :)


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