Topic: yummy fruit bed

[adeymoo]

I am clearing my potatoes and want to turn it into a fruit area with raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries and currant bushes with plum, gage and cherry trees along a different boundary. The strawberries though will need to go in an adjacent bed. The bed is 5.2x6.8 and if it is 1800 between rows I was wondering if the raspberries can be planted as a double row with 1800 between double rows. After 6 months as an allotmenteer I realise how much we spend on visiting the fruit farm.

[grawrc]

I'm assuming you're talking metres here?

It all depends on how much of each you intend to grow. My summer raspberries take up an area 1m x6m. Autumn rasps 1m x 4m. gooseberries and blackcurrants  1m x 5m. Strawberries 1m x 5m. That doesn't include the paths between beds.
For fruit trees and spacing talk to Jon Munday - Blackmoor Nurseries. He posts on here from time to time.
www.blackmoor.co.uk