soft fruit or small fruit

Soft fruit or small fruit such as currant, black currant, gooseberry, raspberry, blackberry, Japanese wineberry
Soft fruit such as: currant, black currant, gooseberry, raspberry, blackberry, Japanese wineberry
Among the names soft fruit or small fruit, various species of shrubs counted, which are often beautifully colored and delicious fruit. These include the berry, the raspberry and blackberry. They are shrubs with a small footprint and easy questions grow and bear fruit, ideal plants for the garden so. Currants (Ribes species) growing shrub. Raspberry, blackberry, Japanese wineberry (Rubus species), making long shoots, which need to be tied. The picking season starts late May
CurrantRed and white berry or currant (Ribes rubrum) can be planted shrub in any garden. They make no special requirements. Currant can grow as a shrub, but are tethered to wires, the so-called hedges growing. The planting distance is 75 cm in the row and the branches are spaced approximately 25 cm tethered, three per bush.


'Esquire van Tets' ripens early, early July
By using different varieties to plant, harvest the spread between early July and early August. For example, combine "Esquire van Tets' (early)," Rolan "(mid-time) and" Red Nose "(late).

White currants are sweet
White currants as 'White Pearl' and 'Blanka' (below) are sweet and have little problems with bird damage.
BlackcurrantBy the typical smell and taste of black currant (Ribes nigrum) fruits are particularly suitable for processing into juice and jam. It is a shrub for the fan and wire can not be grown. Good varieties are 'Black Reward' and 'Öjebyn.
Tip! In the garden and even in a large pot berries standing very practical because plants can grow under. Currant standing example for sale. Of the gooseberry is the variety 'Invicata' recommended. The Gooseberry 'Cativator' bears small, red fruits.

GooseberryRed, yellow and green gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa) are spiny shrubs with somewhat hairy, large berries. For the garden, the varieties' Hinnonmäki Röd ',' Hinnonmäki Gul 'and' Hinnonmäki Grön "commendable.The gooseberry requires moist soil and humus.Keep cutting through enough light in the bush.Eat fresh or use them for jam or juice (black currant).Gooseberries grow
Tip! In the garden and even in a large pot berries standing very practical because plants can grow under. Currant standing example for sale. Of the gooseberry is the variety 'Invicata' recommended. The Gooseberry 'Cativator' bears small, red fruits.
RaspberryThe long branches of raspberry (Rubus idaeus) be guided. The earliest raspberries ripen around the longest day, eg 'Malling Promise' and 'Tulameen'. A late race as "Marwe 'ripens in July. Yellow fruits such as raspberries with 'Fall Gold' plants are real lovers.
Autumn raspberries such as' Zefa Herbsternte "and the new variety 'Autumn Bliss' bear fruit on canes that have grown in the spring. The fruits ripen in August.Raspberry and blackberry cross easily. This has yielded some tasty hybrids like 'Tayberry' or Taybes.
BlackberryThe sometimes-meter branches of bramble (Rubus fruticosus) be guided. A strong prickly variety 'Himalaya', a strong grower with tasty fruits, which ripen early (end of July). The garden has a spiny variety without benefits. 'Hull Thornless' in that respect is commendable. So is the American race 'Chester Thornless', which only matures in August. Together they have a long harvest season.
Japanese wineberryA healthy fruit shrub tolerates shade, even, is Japanese wineberry (Rubus phoenicolasius). The branches are covered with red, fairly soft spines and soft green leaves have a silvery underside. In August, will form bright red raspberry-like fruit inside the sepals. These fruits have a mild sour taste.Rubus require sun and not too heavy, moist soil.Spent canes after harvest afsnoeien new tethers.Fresh use, also suitable for juice, jams and freezing.
Rubus species-wireThe flexible branches of blackberry, raspberry and Japanese wineberry wires need to be guided. Tension which wires around the garden hedge and there is delicious. Turn every 4 m poles in the ground which 1.80 m from the ground. Plant to 1 m. a butt, the raspberries 4 per m. more adjacent rows, a spacing of 2.5 m is required.More or less evergreen bramenras as 'Thornless Evergreen' is suitable for a decorative partition with it.