What fruit bushes will thrive next to an East facing wall?
All these would be fine, given good fertile soil and well-watered. For raspberries, if you buy autumn-fruiting varieties, they are very easy to manage, as you just cut the canes back to ground level each Spring, and they fruit on that year’s growth. They don’t need canes, but it’s helpful just to tie them up a bit if they get too untidy. With summer-fruiting varieties, you have to cut out the flowered stems from one year, and tie in the new growth to canes which will fruit the next year. This is a lot of trouble and anyway I’ve found that the earlier varieties are more subject to mould in damp warm June weather and also the birds go for them so you have to cover them up. For some reason they don’t eat the later Autumn kind. I’d recommend Joan J, from Marshalls, available online – much larger berries than Autumn bliss, which is the more usual variety, excellent flavour and not such thorny leaves and stems. Marshalls also have a good variety of other soft fruit, but hurry – they should b
