My fruit garden plan

Evening all.

I've made a bit of a start on the fruit section of my garden. I just wanted to run it past you all so you might chip with suggestions

This is what I've already bought:

2x Blackberry
3x Blueberry
1x Black currant
1x Red currant
1x White current

In addition, I already have some strawberry plants in the ground from earlier this year. They didn't set fruit this year, probably because the soil I put them in might have been too nitrogen rich (I'd just conditioned the soil just before planting them), they went crazy in terms of foliage and runners, but no fruit. They are likely to be moved from their current spot, into my fruit section.

I also have another blueberry bush that I've had for years, it was suffering in a container of general purpose compost (ie not ericaceous) and weeds. I've pulled it out, got rid of the surplus of general purpose compost, and replanted in ericaceous, minus the weeds.

I also have a goosegog bush that needs some TLC. It has spent this year convalescing after it nearly destroyed entirely by a caterpillar invasion last year. I very nearly wrote it off but couldn't bear too, and I'm glad I didn't because it did leaf up this year, although no fruit, which didn't surprise me as it did took such a battering from the caterpillars.

Currently, I have the blackberries planted straight into the ground, at the base of a willow structure I've made.

The new blueberries and currents are all now in modified buckets (ordinary cheap plastic buckets with drain holes drilled into them) of ericaceous compost, where I'm hoping they'll happily settle while I prepare their permanent home in the ground.

I also plan to get some rhubarb, which I will confine to large containers, because I don't trust it.

At some point, hopefully before winter finishes, I plan to get a couple of small apple trees, and a couple of small damson trees. Two of each for better pollination.

My goal is to have an almost constant supply of fresh fruit once it all establishes (I know rhubarb is actually veg, but I'll let that one pass).

My back garden is north facing, so anything requiring mediterranean conditions is a non-starter, but apart from that, I think I can get away with most things.

Is there anything I've missed? Is there a good, productive fruit bush I should add to my list? Will the ones I've listed provide a good amount of fruit, or do I need to keep shopping? Any suggestions or opinions?

 

All sounding good Dave.

Short of Tree fruit, I thnk you've got it covered.

Think Redstar's lot have re classified Rhubarb into a fruit now.

I know what you mean about not trusting it, Sub Rheum doesn't sound the same as Sub Rosa

 

Was looking through the seed catalogues last night. Saw a range of fruit trees on dwarf rootstock. Not badly priced at under £20 each. You're looking at easily double that in many of the garden centres.

I also noticed that some of the seed catalogues are now listing rhubarb as a fruit. They are of course wrong, but I'll let it slip

I need to think of some covert fruit now. Something that local kids wont recognise, so I can use the front garden too.