Soft Fruit Cuttings

[sue_s lost plot]

One of the “senior” gardeners on our allotments takes cuttings of any soft fruit he can get his hands on – black and red currants, gooseberries, loganberries, Worcesterberries and Jostaberries (not yet blueberries, and raspberries offshoots we have loads of). He makes a slit trench with his spade, drops them in about 4 inches and about the same apart, closes the trench with his heel and ignores them completely. Every year he has at least ten rooted cuttings of each variety to help new gardeners. We also use some of the thorny ones to add variety and edibility to the site hedgerows. Crops are small the first season but seem to increase thereafter. The site is on heavy Nottingham clay.