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Tayberry Buckingham, any thoughts please?

ascollierascollier Posts: 2
in Fruit & veg
I want to buy the Tayberry Buckingham thornless hybrid berry, but have read the RHS trial of this variety which says it has poor quality fruit and low yield.
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/planttrials/TrialReports/Blackberry%20and%20Hybrid%20Berry%202013-2015.pdf This is strange, as the RHS are selling this variety.


I have not found anything elsewhere to substantiate this. Could the RHS trial have tested a rogue batch. What experience do other people have?

 Thanks for your thoughts.

Andrew

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  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Is there a special reason you want this cultivar. I have not grown it myself so hard to comment,  I can vouch for the blackberry  Loch Ness, though with the hotter summers it is cropping earlier every year (ripening now over a month early).
    AB Still learning

  • ascollierascollier Posts: 2
    I have a good blackberry, but I want a tayberry as it supposed to  share characteristics with raspberries, and this variety is thornless.
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    I grew a lovely tayberry in my previous garden. I'd highly recommend them...it was bought from a local nursery so it wasn't a named cultivar. It went on to produce lots of fruit for six years. 
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • mrtjformanmrtjforman Posts: 331
    I have the thorned variety and it has outyielded all my other fruits this year. I has spread 3 meters across a fence to achieve this.

    From everything I have read the yield and taste on the thornless variety is identical but have not tried it.
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