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    Hi all

    Looking for a bit of advice please on soft fruit. I have an orchard (apple, pear, plum, cherry) with a few soft fruit bushes too (fig, blueberry, wild blackberry, wild sloes) but would like to add a couple more. I'm looking for something that doesn't require too much effort, and that is tasty eaten straight from the bush. The site is a (slightly shaded) south facing slope, can get quite cold in winter, on deep, rich slightly clayey soil.

    I was thinking of tayberry or loganberry, but I think both of these require support structures. Or blackcurrant, but I think these need to be cooked / processed to be really tasty. I'm not a big fan of gooseberries, but am not ruling them out. Redcurrant?

    Any other suggestions appreciated...

    Thank you.

  • #2
    Raspberries seem the obvious omission there.... although they'll need support as well.
    He-Pep!

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    • #3
      Not a huge fan of raspberries either! Though never say never...

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      • #4
        I wouldn't recommend red currants raw, unless you don't mind sprinkling them with sugar.

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        • #5
          I'd get both a tayberry and a loganberry if I were you - I have both, they taste different and crop at different times. Support doesn't need to be anything fancy - either a couple of long poles or alternatively a couple of wigwam type tripods like you might have for climbing beans.

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          • #6
            It has to be raspberries - easy to grow, nicer to eat than tay/logan/young berries, IMO. Simple to prune, don't need much, if any support. Cheap to buy or scrounge and the most delicious sort fruit there is - and a long season. I'm picking Joan J's every day for breakfast at the moment.

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            • #7
              Glad you're not ruling out gooseberries. Easy to grow with very little to do to look after them apart from a wee bit of annual pruning.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                It has to be raspberries - easy to grow, nicer to eat than tay/logan/young berries, IMO. Simple to prune, don't need much, if any support. Cheap to buy or scrounge and the most delicious sort fruit there is - and a long season. I'm picking Joan J's every day for breakfast at the moment.
                Joan J raspberries are perfection. So easy, chop them to the ground sometime in winter, then leave them to do their own thing. No supports used here

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                • #9
                  I have autumn fruiting raspberries but they are the most awful things for spreading where they arent wanted.

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                  • #10
                    That's one of the reasons I like them.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Aberdeenplotter View Post
                      I have autumn fruiting raspberries but they are the most awful things for spreading where they arent wanted.
                      Are you complaining about free plants? LOL

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                      • #12
                        I’ve got blackcurrants and the ones I have (free from a fellow allotment holder) are tasty straight from the bush.

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                        • #13
                          Thanks one and all.

                          Maybe I'll plant lots of new fruit bushes!

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                          • #14
                            thats what i'm doing , got 3 sorts of curants rooting ,3 red gooseberry cuttings that seem to be rooting and green gooseberry bush that iv'e to got move of a nieghbours plot, also layering 4/5 thornless blackberry plants !
                            so if I can get some rasbery/ tayberry cuttings I should be fruitfull ! atb Dal.
                            Last edited by Derbydal; 06-10-2018, 08:27 AM.

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                            • #15
                              Think if you don't like rasps, then Tayberry and Loganberry are not going to do it for you either. They are a cross between Rasps and Brambles (Blackberry). Perhaps Blackberry is the taste for you, but they will also need support..... These will all require some supporting structures - Think they all fruit on 2nd year wood

                              I have both Summer and Autumn Rasps. Going to grow Autumn as Summer by keeping more of the canes . The harvest at this time of year and cold is not (IMO) worth it. All best

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