Some time ago I read an article by James Wong about growing fruit and vegetables. It made quite an impression on me when he said that it makes a lot of sense to grow soft fruit. I agree with that view, it doesn’t take so  much effort to look after the fruit bushes and they give very generously for a number of years. With that in mind I visited the garden centre today and had a lovely time – like a child in a sweet shop! They had a good range of seed potatoes I will start chitting them tonight, I got enough egg boxes for that. Then there were onion and shallot sets, but the best was choosing the new raspberry canes.

They are Autumn Bliss and Cascade Delight, five canes each. I had just the right size area for them so as soon as I got home I went to the allotment and planted them.