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I have a space in my fruit cage 3" X 3" X 5" high, full sun all day and well drained soil.

I'd like an 'unusual / interesting soft fruit bush to fit in there. Hopefully an erects form and oooodles of tasty fruit. I'm leaning toward the Tayberry or Loganberry type of fruit.

Suggestions please readers.           ::)           Cheers, Tony.

I'm not so sure that the Tayberry and Loganberry are any nicer than blackberries or raspberries, and both will need more than a 3" spread.

How about training a red currant?

If you have a space 3" x 3" x 5", I'd suggest a small cactus...;)

Seriously, I have Loganberry and Tayberry, both are really nice, certainly better than the adjacent blackberry.

We like tayberry more than raspberries, more of a tang. Ours is at one end of our 20' fruit cage and is tied in all the way down the back during the season, it will root itself at the slightest chance and we had loads of fruit from it :)

I grow all the types you've mentioned. My Tay & Logan do fine & are just as good, in fact better than the blackberries i've got. Wineberries are fine, crop well 2nd year on but are quite small. I eat these on the plot. Not too happy with honeyberries, the berries, for me, do not taste that good (the male plant's berries are one of the bitterest things i've tasted).

One thing I have and for me beats the others in both taste & yield is a Dewberry.

I grow both tayberry and loganberry and would say for cooking and jam making they are both better than raspberry, but they are both a bit strong to pick and eat on the plot. On the other hand I ate so many raspberries on the plot that only a few made it to the freezer. I got my first honeyberries last year, but the birds liked them a bit too much and I only got to eat one. I thought it was good though.

Just don't bother with goji berries. I have been threatening my two triffids with a bonfire for months, and the other day they copped it. Cut down to stumps, and a lovely hot fire. I'd had an autumn "harvest" of about 10 berries after four or five years.

If they sprout again, I will trim them as a small hedge (too much trouble to dig out the roots) and regard any berries as a nice surprise.

Quote from: RobinOfTheHood on January 16, 2012, 14:34:27
If you have a space 3" x 3" x 5", I'd suggest a small cactus...;)

Seriously, I have Loganberry and Tayberry, both are really nice, certainly better than the adjacent blackberry.

Sorry about that Robin, fingertrouble.  As you noticed I actually meant

£' X £' X %'          ::)         Cheers,     Tony.

Bery helpful!   ;D

Our slightly alkaline clay soil is fine for loganberries, ok for tayberries, but does not support raspberries.  I'd go for logans every time, but they are a tad sharp unless they are very ripe.  Then they are very soft and more difficult to pick.  Logans freeze well and are high yielding.