PLanting plan suggestion for fruit cage

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• thevictorian Posts: 1,279

  November 2023

  We grow black, red and white currants in our fruit cage as well as a couple of gooseberry cultivars. These are the fruit our local birds go mad for. Our raspberries are left out in the open and they don't lose much fruit to the birds tbh (but we have a mini field off them).
  I wouldn't put strawberries in there because they will likely get shaded out and they are easy to just throw a lose net over them for protection, so can be grown elsewhere. 

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• purplerallim Posts: 5,287

  November 2023

  The other reason to not put Raspberries in there is that with only two or three plants nothing else would fit. The cage isn't tall enough for Raspberries , if it's as it looks about six foot tall @suealldred64323
  Currents, cherries, gooseberry, would fair better. Strawberries in raised beds outside with a mesh cover will do best, and be easier to pick. Hope this helps.

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• Mrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants Posts: 732

  November 2023

  You can buy short raspberries. When I was growing up we had 4 rows across the garden. I thought all rasps were short.

  Southampton 

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  November 2023 edited November 2023

  I have a similar size cage and have 3 blueberries in there in 15L pots. I usually get about 4-5Kg from them.
  
  Elsewhere I  grow summer raspberries, autumn raspberries, blackcurrants, strawberries and blackberries - none of these are under cover and I don't lose much to the birds thanks to CDs I dangle here and there.
  

  
  Billericay - Essex
  
  Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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