fruits?

[ckfe]

any suggestions on what kind of fruits i can grow in my garden that doesn't involve trees? i'd be planting them in the border of my garden.. i've got strawberries on the go at the moment but other than that i'm short of ideas

[HeyWayne]

Raspberries
Gooseberries
Blackberries

[zazen999]

Blueberries of course

[ckfe]

do they all turn into prickly out of control bushes though? don't think i'd be popular if i turned the borders into a wild hedgerow

[HeyWayne]

I think you can get thornless raspberries and blackberries - I may be wrong, I often am.

[Reks]

I have a miniature version of blueberry (tophat) in a pot and this is its 2nd year and there r loads of green berries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[ckfe]

I think you can get thornless raspberries and blackberries - I may be wrong, I often am.

i'll have a look on suttons or somewhere like that

[ckfe]

I think you can get thornless raspberries and blackberries - I may be wrong, I often am.

yep you're right wayne, suttons do thornless blackberries.. i just don't like blackberries enough to warrant paying £18 for a bush

[Hazel at the Hill]

blackcurrants, redcurrants, whitecurrants.

Aldi & wilko sell these for a quid or so a go in wintertime.

[ckfe]

blackcurrants, redcurrants, whitecurrants.

Aldi & wilko sell these for a quid or so a go in wintertime.

is it ok to plant them in winter? i've never grown fruit before

[Lavenderblue]

josta berries, they are really easy from a cutting and yummy to scoff when you are supposed to be weeding. We have thornless blackberries and we didn't pay that much for them.

Have you had a look at Blackmoor's site?

[ckfe]

Have you had a look at Blackmoor's site?

thanks LB, just had a look and they're a lot cheaper.. i 'm a bit confused, it says 3 Litre.. i don't get it, i thought they sent cuttings or something

[womble]

My fav fruit are, raspberries, tayberries, boysenberries and loganberries. I have these all trained down fences and they take up very little space.

I also have jostaberries, but for some reason I don't seem to like them as much as Lavenderblue.

[toastie]

Think I would go for raspberries (although I have strawberries, blueberry bush, gooseberry bushes and redcurrants also growing) - don't really need a lot of care and as they send out new shoots every year, you end up with more of them year on year. Ours are the later fruiting ones (Sept/Oct) - sorry don't know what variety they are as we 'inherited' them - but we pick the fruit when it gets more expensive in the shops.

[TonyF]

I grow most/all of the above and they're all fairly care free except for pruning. Raspberries grow well with strawberries underplanted. Thornless blackberries are great I have loads of them in the garden but be careful because despite my bestest efforts, when I moved the main plant a couple of years ago a root remained in the ground and I have them all over the place now.

Think of a thornless but tastier bramble and you'll get the idea.