Growing Soft Fruits for Beginners
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Juicy, sweet and oh-so tempting - soft fruits are the last word in homegrown deliciousness. They're also heavy cropping and surprisingly easy to grow.
If you've never tried growing fruit before, now's the time to get started.
In this short video we show you the best soft fruits for beginners to try, so you too can enjoy tasty treats from your garden.
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I have a dozen of blueberry bushes growing in pots. I continually add used coffee grounds as they seem to love it. Plus I put soil acidifier during fall. I trim dead twigs. My blueberries provide me bountiful harvest each year!
Thanks, am starting an allotment for the residents of this house to use, will be making the whole garden edible with fruit and veg with a polytunnel and shed, the only inedible plants will be beneficials as I'm setting out the garden as organic, chemical free. All the produce the tenants don't use will go to the local food bank for the local community. A big task ahead for this spring, but I'm gonna love getting my hands dirty again :)
I love it! I start it today😉
Loved this! We inherited a lot of fruiting plants when we bought our home. There are well-established blueberries, wild blackberries and raspberries, plus red currants and elderberries. We’ve added gooseberries, which have spread nicely on their own. Additionally we have fruit trees, especially apples. This video is particularly helpful because I’m never quite sure when to prune. I’ll give it a go this winter(if it ever stops snowing). Thank you for all the wonderful, informative videos!
Sounds like you've got an incredibly fruitful garden indeed! Keep up the good work.
+Wenz World.....You are YEARS ahead on your 'homestead' with all that existing fruit. Worth half the cost you paid right there. Also, Elderberries are da bomb! Nutrition AND medicinal. I am SO envious.
Thank you! We're pretty psyched. :)
lucky duck!
I would love to try the currants!
agree w/ Marilyn about blueberries, another easy one is figs. They are bountiful and make delicious jam, if they don't all get eaten up first.
E.L. Bl/Du yep - gotta watch late frosts early and birds closer to harvest!
i used to grow veg but now im turning my garden into an organic fruit garden,i have blueberries,blackberries,gooseberries,red and white currants,cranberries as well as apple,pear and cherry tress and rhubarb..much nicer than supermarket fruit and no nasty chemicals either....thanks for the video..:-)
I'm growing strawberries and blueberries (mixed varieties for longer cropping) this year at my allotment. They've been in for a few months, so looking forward to seeing how they go when the spring arrives.
I love blackberries! I have two varities and will be transplanting this year and covering to keep them away from the birds. Thank you for your enjoyable and educational videos
I recommend autumn amber raspberry is very good for beginners
Tayberries are great. They outcompete and send out lots of runners so it's good contained
I'm going to test the waters to plate red berries. That makes me a little curious . Fortunately, your videos encourage me, it's so helpful. Thanks.
This is so helpful... I decided to go all in with the perennials this year, so I chose gooseberries, loganberries, a raspberry, and a blueberry... And just decided to add goji to the mix! There are so many beautiful fruit-bearing perennial ground covers, too, like creeping dogwood and creeping wintergreen!
Perennial crops is something I'd like to get more into - particularly the vegetables, which would save so much time.
@@GrowVeg I absolutely agree! I have a few physical limitations to work around, so the more I can let the plants do the work for me, the better! I really appreciate your videos, they make me feel like I can do these things, too -- such a great confidence booster!
Brilliantly enthusiastic video. Heading to the garden Centre now to plant my raised beds with fruit. Thanks for posting 👍
Great stuff. Hope they establish quickly for you. You can't beat home-grown fruit!
Peaches are great fruits for biginers
I recommend
AutumnAmber raspberry Very good for beginners
We've had a large raspberry plant that wasn't producing much fruit. Now we've learned to cut it back so this year we cut it to the ground. Hopefully that will do the trick. I'll keep you posted.
I have currants (red, white and clove scented), they are great, very easy to grow. I prune them in the winter to remove old, dead and crossing canes, mulch them in our hot summers and water them with a soaker hose when needed. That's generally weekly here in our hot, dry climate and sandy soil.
I have a goji berry bush - I'm not so happy with it. It tends to root where ever it touches the ground and the berries are small and bitter. There may be better varieties. It is certainly tough!
I tried the hardy kiwi's, they need more water than I am able to provide - grow them where its damper and not 110 F in the summers!
I've a currant/gooseberry cross, its pretty tasty, rich and tart. I grow Elderberries, be sure they have shade in hot areas and plenty of water, they are easy to grow though. Oregon grapes have wonderful blue berries that are tart, but not bitter and make wonderful jelly! They are rock solid easy to grow and a lovely ornamental evergreen.
I have a couple of Mulberry trees, they are marginally hardy in my almost zone 4 extreme climate. I love the fruit though, very flavorful and very prolific (flavor may be variety dependent) - be careful the purple ones stain, keep them away from walkways and driveways. I love growing a variety of oddball fruits!
You've got some lovely fruits there - good work!
It's been my hobby to grow unusual fruits - the sort you don't get at farmer's markets - for fun and jelly!
Nice video! Mulberry is another!
Just found you on RUclips and already subscribed. Thanks for the informative tutorials. To the list of soft fruit I'd add Japanese wineberry. Easy to grow. Mine are on a north-facing wall with morning sun and crop well. I love the taste of the berries.
aw wow, you folks are psychic! I was just checking out some autumn fruiting raspberries last night. Its a sign for sure.
You've definitely got to plant them now!
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I grow blueberries, both the traditional blue type and a pink lemonade blueberry in containers. The require very little aside from putting cages around them to protect the fruit and some minimal watering and occasional feeding or soil amendment to insure adequate acidity. My daughter has raspberries, blackberries, and pink lemonade blueberries planted in-ground at her house.
@bina nocht You probably can repot it once it starts to leaf out, but what I've read recommends repotting while it is dormant in winter. Yes, peat moss is acidic and is also good for holding moisture. I recommend Mel's mix for most things (from "Square Foot Gardening"), which is 1 part peat moss (or coconut coir can be substituted), 1 part vermiculite (or pearlite) to allow for drainage,, and 1 part compost to provide nutrients, all measured by VOLUME, not by weight. Feed periodically with a berry fertilizer or fertilizer for acid-loving plants. You might want to check the acidity of your soil first to make sure it is neither too acidic nor too alkaline. If Mel's Mix won't work for you, he recommends using all compost which can usually be purchased from a garden store. I recommend using only organic growing media and amendments in the garden. Good luck!
i have raspberry wild and triplecrowns, blueberry, blackberry, polar berry, currants all colors. grapes, goose berries,haskaps or honeyberry all of these plants are easy to propagate
Great to have got all of those in the ground so promptly. I'm sure you're reaping the rewards now. :-)
We planted thornless blackberries last spring. Our summer was so rainy the fruits were not great, but the plants are huge! Not sure if I they fruit on 1st year canes or not.
We also planted blueberries, which required a lot of soil amendment to get the acid level where they like to be. Deer or rabbits got at them during the winter however and I'm not sure that several of them will come back. Might not suggest these for beginners unless they are prepared to defend them for the first few years. The blackberries weren't touched.
You can have good success with blueberries by growing them in containers of ericaceous (acidic) potting soil. I guess you could potentially cover them in a net to keep deer/rabbits off - though I suspect the more persistent visitors might manage to side-step these defences and munch them!
We actually had them in containers but they stayed small - we live in an area where blueberries become small trees(!) and wanted to let ours grow more. Our lawn service almost killed them while in containers that got hit with some roundup and we wanted them in a safer spot. Deer at them all the way to the ground! I think need better farm dogs to keep them away ;)
Any advice for the blackberries? They are starting to wake up early (!) and not sure if I need to prune back or not. THanks for the assist!
Blackberries are very forgiving soft fruits - they just need pruning to keep them from taking over and getting too gangly! This guide is very helpful: www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=93
I have red gooseberry and blackcurrant bushes at the moment but am deciding wether or not to have Apple and plum trees planted I've moved from growing veg to growing fruit.
If you can grow both that's always preferable. A lot of vegetables are very low maintenance - e.g. winter squash, corn. Many can even be grown as an understorey to fruit trees etc, especially as they are establishing.
I've just bought raspberry, and blackcurrant canes, I put them into soak yesterday, but due to unforseen circumstances I won't get time to plant them till next weekend, will it be OK to leave them in water all that time? Can you advise me please?
Hi Alan. I would take the out of the water and then just heal them in to a spare piece of ground - simply cut a slit into the soil with a spade then space the canes out and firm back so the roots are covered. You can then lift them out to plant them properly next weekend or at any point before growth resumes.
Nice - Definitely planting strawberries :)
What brand of soil for fruit and vegetables to grow indoors?
I would use any soil-based potting mix. In the UK the John Innes mixes are great.
first thing i did when making my food forest was put as many fruit trees and fruit bushes i could afford in the ground and get them growing
Try the honeyberry/haskap berry. Grows in poor soil and can tolerate nearly full shade.
It's very, very hardy too!
Do you have to wait a year after planting strawberries and blackberries before you can harvest them?
You can pick a few strawberries the same year as planting in most cases, especially if you plant early enough in the season. But don't over-crop - best to let plants settle in during their first year by picking off most of the flowers so plants concentrate on establishing. Blackberries are very reliable fruits but again, best to leave them for a year before harvesting - though you'd be fine to take a light crop off them in the first year if they do flower and fruit.
How did you set up your berry patches? Looks like 1-2 fruit bushes in small rounds?
Most of the bushes - currants, gooseberries etc. - are planted about 3-5 feet (90-150cm) apart. The important thing is to match what you are growing to your soil type - and you can never add enough compost to help them along!
Hi. I live in the Highlands of Scotland where it gets very cold. Can I grow my soft fruits in containers in my greenhouse
Yes, absolutely. You may find soft fruit will grow perfectly well outside though, so long as it's somewhere reasonably sheltered from the wind.
I have a black currant bush that produces lots of flowers and leaves, but the flowers end up producing VERY few berries. I'd love to see a more in-depth how-to video on pruning and growing black currant bushes in general. Are they even self pollinating? The nursery where I got it years ago doesn't even know.
Blackcurrants are self-pollinating, so it may be that you might benefit from planting flowering plants nearby that attract more pollinators into your garden. This article gives a very thorough introduction on how to grow blackcurrants: www.chrisbowers.co.uk/article/the-ultimate-guide-to-growing-blackcurrants/
Thank you for that information and link. However, it favours chemical fertilizers, which I prefer to avoid.
i have gojiberrys ,goseberry,2 buleberrys,rusberry, boysenberry,red current, 2 black current , 30 strawberrys, blackberrys
A wonderful line-up of fruits!
Have a blueberry bush that we started in the spring and it's not growing much. Suggestions?
It need to get plenty of sunshine. Make sure you're watering it too - newly planted fruit bushes do need watering in their first year to get them established. A good mulch will also help to lock in that moisture.
Thank you! I didn't expect an answer that fast! Love these videos and listen to them very carefully. Thank you for all the info!
Round here we have golden raspberries, gooseberries, black raspberries, white alpine stawberries, regular strawberries, lingonberry, and one tiny, barely producing blueberry.
What is the difference between full bearing raspberries and summer fruiting raspberries.
Hi Fredrick. Fall bearing (or autumn bearing) are raspberries that crop later in the summer and into early autumn.
I have an Embankment of a garden which was full of trees and I have now cleared I have planted fruit trees in it it's about 6 to 8 feet sloping Embankment and about 30 feet long with a retaining wall of 4 to 5 feet high I was wondering could I grow soft fruits to grow down the wall and if so what kind.
I would imagine that as there were trees there in the first place, there's no reason you can't grow any number of fruits - soft and tree fruits - in their place. If the slope gets plenty of sun then you can grow any soft fruits suitable for your climate. To help them establish, though, I would be inclined to make mini terraces for each plant, so that the water collects around the foot of the plant to quench it, rather than running straight off. Add add plenty of organic matter too, to help build soil health and structure.
I have a little 1.5ft blackcurrant bush I've been training and growing since the end of may and it's not got any fruit? I heard they are renown for not producing fruit? Is mine too young at the moment? I was told it's Black current but it has pink little spines all over the branches? I can't figure out what it is, as far as I am aware black currant has no thorns, my plant looks identical except mines has pink fury prickly stems?
I wonder if it's just the variety of blackcurrant that you are growing that has pink spines? Blackcurrant stems can have a pinkish tinge to them sometimes. As for fruiting, bushes won't fruit in their first few years - they need to reach a certain size and maturity before flowering and fruiting, so you may have to wait until next year or even the year after for any fruits. I have some one-and-half year old blackcurrants about 2ft high and have had no fruits yet - I'm hopeful for next summer.
@@GrowVeg hi! Love your videos thanks for getting back to me! Turns out it's a European red raspberry! I used multiple plant i.d apps and all point to the same species. Wild / European red raspberry 🤞🤞
Does anyone have any idea what blackberries are cropping up in Wiltshire about now? Small fruits, round clusters of very small drupelets, unusually firm when ripe and flowering as late as the very end of October when I last checked, so bearing fruit well into November. Notably different to the other varieties growing around it that were done by the end of September.
I imagine there are different strains/varieties of blackberry out there in the wild. Some may flower later. Or it may be that a particular microclimate makes some berries later/earlier than others. If you are sure it is definitely a blackberry, it would be fine to eat them. But it's essential to be sure.
@@GrowVeg Yes I am trying to identify the strain/cultivar. I'll see if I can dig up photos and edit the post with a link. I hypothesized about it being the microclimate in that particular area but there were clearly more pedestrian blackberries growing in amongst this other kind that were well over/rotting when this thing still had a few flowers going. Very odd. Definitely a blackberry- and even if it black raspberry or a hybrid, it would be fine. Tasted good. But I couldn't help but compare and contrast these two cultivars growing in the same space operating on a totally different calendar. I would expect a domestic cultivar to grow that far out of season and transport well with how firm they were when ripe, but they were so small and 'primitive' I highly doubt it. I have been looking at many lists of cultivars but surprisingly few have pictures for comparison as opposed to lengthy descriptions. The search continues....
You skipped Blueberries. Is that because you deem them too difficult for beginners?
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Which is best for the desert southwest (US?)
Blackberries and boysenberries do quite well, but you'll need to provide a really thick mulch to protect the roots from heat. They would prefer some shade too. Strawberries grow okay, with some shade, but you'll need to water them often.
I'm going to use my new greenhouse this year so wondered with tomatoes. Do you have to sow the whole packet of say 20 seeds or can you just sow maybe 2 or 3 so none go to waste thanks
Tomatoes have pretty good germination rates. Space the seeds an inch or so apart and you'll get good strong seedlings for pricking out and potting on. I would sow the same number of seeds as plants you need, with perhaps a couple of extras to allow for any that don't germinate. Of course, once the packet is open the seeds will keep for less time, so if your packet had, say 20 seeds, then I'd maybe look to sow a third of these with a view to using them all up within three years.
Hi Beth, I noticed in your reply that you have a green house. Is it like a hobby greenhouse or moderately large one? Can you give me some details as where you purchased it and how it is installed? I have been trying for the past few years to get one. I searched and searched but seems like no one knows how to install a backyard greenhouse with all the utilities inside. Unfortunately, I can not do it myself due to certain limitations. Any information you can provide on greenhouses will be greatly appreciated.
Hi Sitaram Rampalli, Mine is 8ft x 6ft I bought it off a friend but paid someone to build me a concrete base for it sit on and they then erected the greenhouse for me. You could probably pick up a cheap on on sites such as Gumtree, Facebook and perhaps ask a relative or cheap handyman to help build it.
Beth, I really appreciate your prompt response very much. Couple of more quick questions - First, I do not know where you live, but do you have electric, heat and water to the green house? Second, did you need a permit from your county/township before installing the green house? I love gardening and I do it in containers now. I am really itching to have a green house in my backyard so that I can have something growing all through the year. I live in Illinois and our winters are no picnic! Appreciate your response. Thanks again.
I just use water from either my outside tap with hose pipe or the water butt I have where it collects rain water from greenhouse drain. I don't have a heated greenhouse but intend to purchase a heater and propane gas bottle so I can use in winter. I didn't need a permit no but I'm in England, UK
I planted raspberries a few years ago, get vigorous growth, but I've seen very few flowers, no fruit. I've been trying dif things, from cutting all vines, to cutting none. I want to make jam! I am in zone 5. I have a few varieties in there, I forget what.
Raspberries should grow successfully in zone 5. You need to establish what types of raspberry you have once and for all, which can then hopefully enable you to prune successfully in future years to enjoy a good crop.
I would suggest pruning all of your raspberries in late winter. If they happen to be summer-fruiting types you won't get any flowers or fruit this year (because they fruit on last year's growth), but you will know definitively that they are summer-fruiting types. But if they are autumn-fruiting you will see flowers then fruits by late summer/early fall. Once you know what type you have, prune appropriately.
Make sure you're adding plenty of organic mulch around the base of the canes too, which will help to feed the plants, creating strong growth for fruit set later on.
Do the canes produce their first year? I heard it was 2nd year, so I tried that, no luck. Do I prune them to the base?
Sorry to see blueberries weren't mentioned. Otherwise, I always enjoy your videos and information.
I Ben I have a hinnonmaki red gooseberry and some strawberries
Lovely stuff - a super gooseberry variety. :-)
planted some blue white and red berries plus some rhubarb but got no fruit from the bushes and the leaves curled up, and the rhubarb didnt grow or anything, what am i doing wrong ?
It could be that your plants have a virus, for example raspberry leaf curl. Or it may simply be that they weren't watered enough in their first year and suffered from a lack of moisture. Young plants need watering in their first summer to help them establish, particularly if the prevailing conditions are fairly dry anyhow.
@@GrowVeghi there, thanks for your reply. we moved them all into the ground recently to a place where things seem to thrive tho its quite rough ground, there still the same just looking dormant, should i leave them alone now till next year ? also does rhubarb die back or do i need to cut it back ? the leaves are changing colour now, not much sun and lots of rain here in Pembrokeshire, i really enjoy your vids and thanks again.
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The big thing would be coping with heat and sun (the reverse of my garden!). I would suggest lots of use of shade netting to encourage cool-season crops like lettuce, peas and cabbage. Watering, of course, to keep things growing on without hesitation. But your climate opens you up to so many wonderful additional fruits and vegetables: okra, guava etc. If you're in Australia/NZ, you may fine our Aus-based website more useful. It's got all the same content, just ordered to match your seasons: www.growveg.com.au
I can't remember if I have a summer or autumn raspberry? It literally did nothing last year (when I bought it) & thought i'd killed it! It's literally a stick ( maybe 10 inches high), with two leaves that have just appeared qter way from the base!? Any ideas anyone? I;m in Uk if that makes a difference? All help is appreciated,. Thanks.
It's a tricky one. Leave all the stems to grow this year and make a note of which ones fruit. You can cut back any stems that fruit after they have done so. If they've all fruited then you'll know you probably have an autumn raspberry. If only some of the stems fruit it's probably a summer-fruiting raspberry.
Thank you
is this plant's survive in Egypt if yes what is best times for planting
Mohamed Tayel, the rasberrys will not thrive in Egypt. They have to have a cold dormant period. You may be able to have a type of Blackberry. As for the other types of fruit, I do not know.
I think it would be too hot in Egypt, sorry. Fruits that grow well in Egypt include dates, pomegranates, grapes and citrus fruits.
If you have a good water supply, I would think strawberries would do well... I used to live in a hot climate where they did well, but we also had a lot of water. Perhaps if the ground is well covered to retain moisture. Wish I could grow dates well like you can!
Can Currents grow in growing zone 9b?
Hi Simone, yes, they should grow in zone 9b.
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