[AlaninCarlisle]

I have a partially shaded area about 100 sq metres that I'm planning to use for pears and plums and maybe gooseberries after the potato crop there fell to blight. Plan is to clear out as many of the old tubers that I can (most of them are mush anyway), cover with permeable weed membrane and then plant a few fruit trees. I already have Victoria plums so am looking for something different. Soil is good loam after many years of horse-muck application (and probably too many years of spud, carrot and parsnip-growing)

Can anyone recommend pear, gooseberry and plum varieties that might succeed in this wet and windy part of the country please? Any thoughts on ground preparation?