Mystery Soft Fruit Bundle
- A superb 'mystery' duo of soft fruits for your patio pots or garden
- Receive 2 fruit bushes, each of a different variety
- Compact and hardy, they will produce pounds of fruit each year
- Selection chosen from: redcurrant, blackcurrant, whitecurrant, blackberry, blueberry, gooseberry or raspberry
- Supplied as 2 established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting
Product Description
Nothing compares to eating sweet, juicy and delicious fruit picked fresh from your garden. With this fantastic offer, you will receive 2 different soft fruit bushes chosen for you in our nursery from the following selection: redcurrant, blackcurrant, whitecurrant, blackberry, blueberry, gooseberry and raspberry.
So, if you have always wanted to grow your own soft fruits – or even add different varieties to the fruits that you already grow – this special offer means you get 2 top-quality, high-yielding bushes that will reward you with delicious fruit from the first year of planting. Fully hardy and easy to grow, they will then produce bumper crops year after year.
Supplied as 2 established plants, each of a different variety selected for you in our nursery, in 9cm pots ready to plant.
What Is Supplied
Supplied as 2 established plants in 9cm pots, of 2 different varieties selected from: redcurrant, blackcurrant, whitecurrant, blackberry, blueberry, gooseberry and raspberry.
Compact bushes: actual mature height and spread will depend upon the type and variety supplied.
Plant Information
Top Tips
- To maximise cropping, plant where the bushes will receive plenty of direct sunlight.
- Keep plants consistently watered to ensure fruits are juicy and well-formed.
- If planting in a container, use the best compost you can buy, adding some sand or grit for drainage.
- Protect the ripening fruit from birds with fine gauge netting if you need to.
Care Guide
Follow any specific planting and aftercare instructions supplied with your individual plants.
Planting Advice:
- Plant container-grown plants at any time, avoiding waterlogged, dry or frozen soil. If in doubt, err towards spring, but remember to keep pots well-watered so that the soil does not dry out.
- Before planting, soak container-grown shrubs thoroughly and allow to drain.
- Dig a hole a little deeper and 3 x wider than the nursery pot. Add a soil conditioner such as well-rotted manure to the earth removed from the hole or add mychorrhizal fungi to the roots when planting to help plants establish more quickly.
- Remove the plant from its pot and tease out a few of the roots. Place your plant in the hole at the same level as the pot.
- Refill the hole with the earth removed (backfilling). Firm in the soil with your heel, avoiding the rootball.
- Water well and mulch around the base of the plant with a collar, compost, gravel or bark.
- If your garden soil has a pH over 5.5, blueberry bushes are best grown in a pot, in ericaceous soil, and watered with rainwater, as tap water will gradually raise pH levels. If growing blueberries in the garden, add plenty of organic matter such as pine needles or composted conifer clippings. Avoid farmyard manure as it will scorch the roots.
Aftercare Advice:
- Mulch plants to conserve soil moisture.
- Water regularly and especially during dry spells. Container-grown fruits should be watered as soon as their soil dries out.
- Feed in late winter with a balanced, granular feed.
For more detailed aftercare and pruning advice, visit indvidual varieties of currant and berry fruit on our website for specific instructions.
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