Kitchen Garden Forum

Hi all,
I am thinking about buying one or two of the tayberry/logunberry plants advertised on Ken Muirs website,with a view to either jam making,wine making,or both maybe.
Any advice please,- i have a south facing fence line waiting.

All the best everyone,

I would recommend a tayberry rather than a loganberry as they're supposed to be sweeter. I would also recommend 'Buckingham' if Ken Muir do it as it's thornless, which is a big bonus at picking time.
It isn't really necessary to have a south-facing fence. I might save that for something that would appreciate it, like a fig.
The usual method is to attach five strong wires horizontally at about 1 ft apart, then train the first years' canes along these. You'll need about 5/6 feet of space on both sides of the central stem. Train the canes either to the right or left of the centre. Then these will fruit the following year and new canes will grow at the same time. Train the new canes on the other side to the fruiting ones, then cut the fruited ones down to the ground in the autumn. Piece of cake!

we hacve logans and a tayberry, dont know what varieties, but wouldn't bother with any more logans. the tayberry tastes better and fruits better. its on a bit of a raised bed on a south facing garage wall so it gets the rainfall off the roof. the thornless loganberry doesn't seem to fruit aswell as the thorned ones. i dont know if this is general or just ours.