fruit bushes

I notice a lot of my neighbours are getting some good crops of fruit like raspberries, blackcurrants or red.
What would be the best way for me to get some fruit next year. Should I get some grown bushes from garden centre or do they take a year or two regardless. I don't mind what I get maybe gooseberry even

 

Ask the neighbours if they wouldn't mind giving you some cuttings of the Blackcurrants when they prune them too. They root quite easily.

 

This year I have had bumper crops of soft fruit.50 strawberry plants,30 lb fruit.Gooseberry's,
3 red bushes, 15 lb also given 12 lb away.1 green bush 10lb ,given 6lb away, rasp's 20lb .red currant 1 bush 7lb,black currant 6lb.(Now it's my daughters turn to make the jam.)
I have a new chap 2 plots away from me who wants some plants and bushes so will be planting them soon for him.

Ian

 

Wow, that's impressive @fileyboy. How big/old are your plants? By my reckoning, your goosegog bushes are averaging nearly 10lb of fruit each. That's a lot.

 

The Strawberry are plants are 2 rows 3 Years old ,2 at 2years old and 2 at 1 year old,(I replant 2 row s of new plants each year,digging out the 3 year old every year.the fruit bushes are 6 years old,each year they get a feed of wood ash and a hand full of chicken manure pellets to approx. 1 sq.yard.
Ian

 

I've just taken over an allotment and there are quite a few strawberry plants which have been left there, by the previous plot holder.

I only started work on the plot today, so it is very early days. Tomorrow I'll bring a long tape and try and make a plan. I'll then be in a position to determine what goes where.

I'll probably find the strawberries are not in the perfect spot.

Should I dig them up now and maybe stick each one in a small pot, ready to replant, when I have finalised everything ..


or leave them where they are, then maybe in the spring move them direct into their new spot.

thanks for any advice given

 

If the plants look healthy why not train a few runners into some pots to root,then you will have some nice fresh plants to start a new bed maybe !!