I am thinking about growing a thornless blackberry or tayberry on my allotment. My main consideration is flavour - I don't want a tasteless variety like you get in the supermarkets, but something closer to the wild bramble (or better). Any recommendations?
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This is only my second year on this allotment, and I have only just got it all cleared from a few years of abandonment. I have divided the main part into four areas, each with three raised beds, which I am using for the four-year veg rotation. The other area, which is quite big, I plan to plant frui...

Thanks for the advice. Yes my veg beds rotate over four years, so a semi-permanent stawb plot wouldn't fit easily into that rotation - I had also read that they should not be grown where potatoes have grown. All I was wondering was - is their anything else semi-permanent that I can swap the straws w...

I have a four-bed rotation for my veggies, but read that I should rotate my strawberry bed every 3 years. Any suggestions what I can rotate it with? At the momment they are in a large bed I am planning to grow asparagus, rapberries, rhubarb and other permanent crops in. How do other people rotate th...