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Can you have too many fruiting shrubs/trees?

Louise BLouise B Posts: 81
in Fruit & veg

Hi,

I'm planning my garden overhaul and it includes a patio with a wide path circling the house.

Due to the garden sloping down away from the majority of the path I think I'm going to have to use some sort of hedge to hide the hard edges and avoid trips and slips.

It's where I was planning to have my veg beds so  I'm thinking blueberries, currants and dwarf fruit trees to make it an area for growing produce but I don't know if it's too much fruit?

Why doesn't everyone plant fruit shrubs everywhere unless there is a reason not to?

Any suggestions or advice welcome.

Thanks

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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,905

    Hi LouiseB. That is the essence of a traditional cottage garden - you grow fruit and veg in with the traditional cottage garden plants. My blackcurrants grow in one of my flower/shrub borders.

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698

    You can never have too much fruit.

  • RainbowfishRainbowfish Posts: 276

    Mine is too small for many things but I do have a few currants, blueberries, honeyberry, elderberry and just bought a fig tree for our south-west wall :)

  • tigerburnietigerburnie Posts: 131

    If you have concerns, why not use the espalier method on your fruit trees, takes up less width and will do what you want to do.

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    As above, you can't have too many! image  Anything you don't eat or give away will be eaten by wildlife so you can't go wrong really.  I don't have a huge garden but have 4 apple trees (one a 'family' tree with 3 varieties and another with 2 varieties), two 'family' pears, one with 3 and the other with 2, 2 gooseberry bushes, 1 Worcesterberry, 1 Wineberry, 5 honeyberry, two edible cherry, 2 blackberry, 4 Goji, 1 Boysenberry, 1 lingonberry, 1 Jostaberry, about 15 blueberry, about 50 strawberry and about a dozen raspberry.  I'm sure I've forgotten a few others too!

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

    HOW CAN YOU HAVE TOO MUCH FRUIT? WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN? A FRIEND OF MINE YEARS AGO DID A THING CALLED A RUMTOPF WITH SOME LEFTOVER FRUIT. IT WAS DEADLY AT CHRISTMAS. VERY UNTIDY!!!image

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  • RedwingRedwing Posts: 1,511
    BobTheGardener says:

    As above, you can't have too many! image  Anything you don't eat or give away will be eaten by wildlife so you can't go wrong really.  I don't have a huge garden but have 4 apple trees.....................

    See original post
    Agree with all of the above.  I used to live in a house with a garden that had 5 apple trees, some mature.  Far too many apples for us but I used to take them to a local place which pressed them into juice.  I saved up plastic bottles and they bottled the juice which I froze.  If you didn't take your own bottles they charged a ridiculous amount for their plastic bottles.  We used to have frozen/fresh apple juice for about six months.....you can never have too much fruit.  If you don't eat it it will attract a lot of birds and other wildlife to finish it off.
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    Last edited: 18 May 2016 19:17:45

    Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    UPPER CASE WRITING IN BOLD IS GOOD, ARE YOU ON AN IPAD PANSY?

    I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM WITH THE EDIT BUTTON.

    Last edited: 18 May 2016 20:03:14

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  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

     I FEEL LIKE WE'RE ALL SHOUTING ABOUT FRUIT! FLIPPIN' BONKERS YOU PEOPLE! image

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