Tayberries

[Mikey]

Has anyone come across a supplier for Tayberries, I prefer them to raspberries as I think they make a much better jam. Mail Order is fine.

I should add, I am not looking for them now, but already planning the fruit section for later in the year.

[Alison]

I think you can get them off Ken Muir and D T Brown may well do but have not checked. Mine was a cutting from my grandad's and they do indeed make mighty fine jam and desserts.

[Mikey]

Cheers Alison, I'll look them up. I have the same luxury with Raspberries, my father gave me a load in our last house which I left behind. He says he'll have plenty for autumn for me, but I intend turning a 1/4 of the plot over to soft fruits, for jams and pies, and want a good variety.

[Lavenderblue]

I got a few from Aldi - might be worth checking to see if they have any left.

[Mikey]

Only problem with Aldi's is its here today gone tomorrow, and I don't really want to get them until I'm ready for them. Thanks Lavenderblue.

[Snadger]

Only problem with Aldi's is its here today gone tomorrow, and I don't really want to get them until I'm ready for them. Thanks Lavenderblue.

I disagree Mikeywills! Get them whilst they are cheap and pot them up. Once you have a potted plant you can plant them anytime!

Mine came from Aldi and have fruited well!

[Flummery]

Mine came 8 years ago from Marshall's.

[Bluemchen]

I just took delivery of a Buckingham Tayberry from Ken Muir. They also do a standard Tayberry.

[percy charlie]

hi mickeywills, ive used Blackmoor Nurseries they have tayberrys and a thornless tayberry too, they have some left but will have a new full stock available from november to december of anything they have currently sold out of. post costs are really good and so is the plants quality. i ordered 105 fruit plants off them all arrived plus they sent about 5 extra raspberry canes and all have servived. you may also consider the sunberry or as i got the japanese wineberry, supposed to taste like the tayberry but grows more like a brambly bush no cane cutting to do mines in a big pot and grows against wires across the fence the stems have wine coloured hairs and it fruits after raspberrys but before blackberrys so keeps the fruit season going. also they way the fruit grows its hard for birds to get at read blackmoors write up. you can specify delivery details too. hope this helps and happy fruiting.

[Mikey]

hi mickeywills, ive used Blackmoor Nurseries they have tayberrys and a thornless tayberry too, they have some left but will have a new full stock available from november to december of anything they have currently sold out of. post costs are really good and so is the plants quality. i ordered 105 fruit plants off them all arrived plus they sent about 5 extra raspberry canes and all have servived. you may also consider the sunberry or as i got the japanese wineberry, supposed to taste like the tayberry but grows more like a brambly bush no cane cutting to do mines in a big pot and grows against wires across the fence the stems have wine coloured hairs and it fruits after raspberrys but before blackberrys so keeps the fruit season going. also they way the fruit grows its hard for birds to get at read blackmoors write up. you can specify delivery details too. hope this helps and happy fruiting.

Cheers I prefer the cane cutting though it takes a small stock and makes it much bigger within a few years. Thanks for the tip. Can anyone tell me what the difference between a buckingham tayberry and a normal tayberry is? or is it just point of origin.

[Flummery]

Buckingham Thornless is just a variety of tayberry.

[Mikey]

Thanks, I don't mind the thorns it might just keep the kids off them.

I used to have a rambling rector rose that I pruned over our front door, it always used to cut me to shreds, everytime I did it. To the point where I got asked at the doctors surgery once whether I would like to speak to someone. They thought I was self harming!!

[southlondongardener]

www.cooltemperate.co.uk is good.

[Alison]

Don't know about with tayberries but I find that thornless blackberries nowhere near as good as the thorned varieties, there is a much smaller volume of fruit in my oppinion.

[Mikey]

Don't know about with tayberries but I find that thornless blackberries nowhere near as good as the thorned varieties, there is a much smaller volume of fruit in my oppinion.

Less fruit or more picking them?