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supporting fruit bushes

i'm new to growing fruit bushes and would like some advice on how to build a support for them. I've got canes and string, just lack the knowhow. Whaty sort of fruit bushes? 1 Gooseberry, 1 blackcurrant and 1 raspberry ( planted others but they didn by terry64

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12/06/2012 16:07:26

by terry64

Need some help with my blackcurrant plant

Hello, I brought an blackcurrant plant about 3 years ago now from the garden centre and I just planted it in my fruit patch A year ago I saw some flowers grow on a branch they soon deleloped into fruit but before i could harvest my first crop green by alex_wonga

17/08/2012 13:22:15

by alex_wonga

Talkback: Eastern European vegetable varieties

hopefully it will grow in mine. Navrsi, that is cold!Pruning blackcurrants to a standard shape is not at all common, though I'm sure they look lovely. Some people prune at harvest time: in the summer take off a third of the older branches and cut them low in by sue

28/11/2011 18:40:22

by vegman1970

ribes

, but insipid. Wouldn't bother, grow black or red currants for wonderful fruit, enjoy the ribes for their spring flowers. We recently bought a house with a garden which had a couple of true blackcurrant bushes and an ornamental ribes. i severely pruned by sparky65

29/07/2012 23:46:39

by sparky65

Help identifying mystery plants

pic is red valerian. I think, pic 4 ( or summer fruiting bush, as you put it ) is a blackcurrant bush, I've been trying to think where I've seen the same shaped leaves before - I have a blackcurrant bush at the allotment and the leaves look very by littleredhel

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05/06/2012 22:49:17

by PenylanSue

Herb - Sweet cicely

among my cllection of herbs I have been growing for several years is Sweet cicely. Pretty ferny foliage and white flowers at this time of year followed by black seeds.I have been told that you can use it to reduce the amount of suger when cooking by Trish3

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17/04/2012 18:36:18

by Trish3

Raspberries

I have limited space in my veg patch and wondered whether I would be able to grow raspberries and other soft fruit such as blackcurrants and gooseberries against a fence which gets about 4/5 hours sunshine a day. I do not want to utilise one of my by lorrainespooner

02/03/2013 14:35:57

by lorrainespooner

fruit bushes

to ground level each spring. thanks mate Help please just bought a raspberry bush and a blackcurrant bush advice please on how to erect canes thank you Rena Daisy7 / Rena, your blackcurrant won't need canes, it will support itself. The raspberry will grow by Joe the Gardener

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21/04/2012 17:32:49

by Greenfingers9

Fruit for amatures

in the shops but easy to grow. Just cut them down to the ground in February every year and that's it. You don't even need supports for them. Another good choice are blackcurrants. Again fairly easy to grow and maintain. Pruning is relatively easy and can by ApprenticeSam

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24/02/2013 14:17:27

by chica

Best feed for fruit

and bushes? The cordon trees are apple, pear, and there is a plum (oldest fruit in garden) Then I have redcurrants and blackcurrants planted last year, Now I am planting rhubarb, and gooseberry and last autumn I planted by Rosa carriola

04/03/2013 13:10:52

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