Brand new fruit garden - looking for recommendations

[Kaja]

Hi all,

I've just cleared a whole new bed, about 12 square metres, and would love to use it to grow soft fruit. I've already got a couple of strawberry beds elsewhere, but am looking for recommendations on variets of:
black/white/red currants
gooseberry (ideally a sweet one)
raspberries - both autumn and summer

and if you've got any other ideas for what I can put in there, I'm all ears!

[Two_Sheds]

I'd suggest you order all the fruit books that you can, from your local library, and have a good browse.


I can't recommend summer rasps, because they're too prone to maggots: I only grow autumn ones now

[Loudbarker1]

Hi all,

I've just cleared a whole new bed, about 12 square metres, and would love to use it to grow soft fruit. I've already got a couple of strawberry beds elsewhere, but am looking for recommendations on variets of:
black/white/red currants
gooseberry (ideally a sweet one)
raspberries - both autumn and summer

and if you've got any other ideas for what I can put in there, I'm all ears!

You lucky person!

I have been very pleased with my tayberry (thre is a cloen wthoutr spnes if that matters to you), and blueberries are fashionable. Don't forget rhubarb (Timperly Early is good for me).

For fun there's "rosecurrents" which I think are a sport of blackcurrents - the growing habit is the same.

I love the taste of Tulameen raspberries (late summer). For autumn, Joan J, Autumn Bliss and Polka are probably the market leaders.

You may have looked already, but the National fruit colelction at Brogdale has a fantastic collection of heritage soft fruit well worth exploring.

And don't forget the fruit cage!


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