I keep seeing lovely fruit trees/bushes/canes and I would love some, however I have nowhere to plant. Is there a fruit that I could grow in a pot? I did try strawbs last year but not too impressed. My fav is raspberries, but I don't holdout much hope for these!
I've got gooseberries, blackcurrants and redcurrants in tubs on a large rooftop patio. Those big plastic ones with rope handles, called 'Muck Buckets' I think, where I got them from. All mine are a nice olive green colour, though I have seen gaudier colours available since. The bushes mentioned above, 2 of each, were planted in the winter of 98/99 and are still going strong. The gooseberries are the best, each yielding 5 or 6lbs of fruit each summer. The blackcurrants are none too bad either.
If you go this way, make up the tubs in roughly the place you want them to stay. They are darned heavy when complete and can only then be moved by careful dragging with one of the rope handles. I drilled holes in the bottom first with a cordless (12mm holes in 3 rings), then put in 2 inches of gravel and then a good planting mixture with some added bonemeal. Every Autumn/early winter I carefully take away what I can of the top 2 or 3 inches of soil and replace with a No 3 type. A granular fertiliser top-dressed in March with a mulch of very-well rotted manure on top. A couple of light liquid feeds (tomato food) in the growing season as the fruit matures.
Make sure you get the larger version of these buckets, which are 19 inches diameter at the top and 16 inches deep. I think the actual marked capacity is 70 litres. There are smaller versions I have had for M27 rooted Apples, maybe about 50 litre tubs, and in the same style with rope handles, but the grade of plastic for these smaller ones was nowhere near as good. After a season, two at the most, the plastic went very brittle indeed and they started falling apart with the slightest contact. Strangely, all the red ones decayed first, rather than the blue. They did look a bit too gaudy but there were no other colours available at the time. I'm glad they're gone now.
The original Muck Buckets though in olive green. Coming up for 10 years old and still as strong as ever, despite soil, manure, fertiliser and all the elements.
Dwarf Apples will cope well in smaller tubs than this. I have six in varying containers, one an old milk churn.