Loganberries

A._Badger

Loganberries are very easy to find in garden centres but you are possibly better off buying from a specialist. I have no connection with them but use and can recommend Blackmoor in Somerset. If you do decide to grow one try to get the LY654 cultivar as it is thornless.

Tayberries produce, to my mind, superior fruit and make the best jam I have ever tasted. They are harder to find but just as easy to grow. Both are very productive and need very little specialist care. I grow both and they produce masses of fruit with little or no trouble.

Murphybear

A._Badger said:

Loganberries are very easy to find in garden centres but you are possibly better off buying from a specialist. I have no connection with them but use and can recommend Blackmoor in Somerset. If you do decide to grow one try to get the LY654 cultivar as it is thornless.

Tayberries produce, to my mind, superior fruit and make the best jam I have ever tasted. They are harder to find but just as easy to grow. Both are very productive and need very little specialist care. I grow both and they produce masses of fruit with little or no trouble.

Thanks for this, it’s very interesting.  I haven’t come across Blackmoors  before so read their website with interest.  They are actually based in Hampshire, near Selborne.  I have a cousin who ran the Post Office/shop in Selborne before she retired and I used to visit her regularly.  

I see they have an Apple day in October when they are open to the public.  I might go along as I am only in the next county.  

Farway

Murphybear said:

A._Badger said:

Loganberries are very easy to find in garden centres but you are possibly better off buying from a specialist. I have no connection with them but use and can recommend Blackmoor in Somerset. If you do decide to grow one try to get the LY654 cultivar as it is thornless.

Tayberries produce, to my mind, superior fruit and make the best jam I have ever tasted. They are harder to find but just as easy to grow. Both are very productive and need very little specialist care. I grow both and they produce masses of fruit with little or no trouble.

Thanks for this, it’s very interesting.  I haven’t come across Blackmoors  before so read their website with interest.  They are actually based in Hampshire, near Selborne.  I have a cousin who ran the Post Office/shop in Selborne before she retired and I used to visit her regularly.  

I see they have an Apple day in October when they are open to the public.  I might go along as I am only in the next county.  

A second for Blackmoor, I have bought from them, click & collect because I'm not far down the A3.

Apart from apple & a grape, I bought a Thorn Free blackberry, which with hindsight I wish I'd gone for something like a thornless loganberry, nothing wrong with the blackberry, just a change of mind

Not sure what county you're in, but a trip to RHS Wisley would certainly pay off. They have all the cane fruit types you want growing there, including some you may never have heard of, great thing is you can see them for spreading, fruit, thorns etc

Murphybear

Farway said:

Murphybear said:

A._Badger said:

Loganberries are very easy to find in garden centres but you are possibly better off buying from a specialist. I have no connection with them but use and can recommend Blackmoor in Somerset. If you do decide to grow one try to get the LY654 cultivar as it is thornless.

Tayberries produce, to my mind, superior fruit and make the best jam I have ever tasted. They are harder to find but just as easy to grow. Both are very productive and need very little specialist care. I grow both and they produce masses of fruit with little or no trouble.

Thanks for this, it’s very interesting.  I haven’t come across Blackmoors  before so read their website with interest.  They are actually based in Hampshire, near Selborne.  I have a cousin who ran the Post Office/shop in Selborne before she retired and I used to visit her regularly.  

I see they have an Apple day in October when they are open to the public.  I might go along as I am only in the next county.  

A second for Blackmoor, I have bought from them, click & collect because I'm not far down the A3.

Apart from apple & a grape, I bought a Thorn Free blackberry, which with hindsight I wish I'd gone for something like a thornless loganberry, nothing wrong with the blackberry, just a change of mind

Not sure what county you're in, but a trip to RHS Wisley would certainly pay off. They have all the cane fruit types you want growing there, including some you may never have heard of, great thing is you can see them for spreading, fruit, thorns etc

We’re in Dorset.  When I lived in London we used to go down to Wisley quite a lot.  

Farway

Yesterday I was at RHS Wisley and checked the cane fruits they have growing.

One that I thought looked very promising, and worth further investigating is Boysenberry, which seems to be a cross between all sorts of berries and was ripening when most of the other berries there are still green and growing

Not tasted but searches say it's nice raw & cooked