What to grow on my new fence

Apricots

Something that you enjoy eating. Maybe something that you would begrudge paying a high price for in the shops?

We currently just have a victoria plum tree in the garden - it was a "new home" gift from my mother many years ago and it gives me great joy to reach out and take plums from the tree to eat with my breakfast.

At our previous house we had a far larger garden and grew pears, apple, strawberries etc.

We have a Victoria and a Czar plum, have considered a fan trained greengage.

Fences driving me bonkers at the moment. Was replaced by the sort of fence with concrete posts and a deep concrete base, so couldn't work out how to attack the trellis for things to grow up. Put staple things along the top [the strip of wood across the top of the fence is very thin and splits quite easily] and used wire to attach the trellis at the top and have put hardwood stakes along the bottom with metal brackets at each bottom corner. Trouble is, as I was hammering the stakes in kept hitting hard objects so then had to dig and sieve the soil. Someone will now tell me of an easier way to do it! My daughter had trellis that slotted over the top of the fence. Going to put pyracantha and honeysuckle along it [sticking with things that I know will grow]; not edible I'm afraid. Keep finding pieces of crockery and old glass bottles while I'm digging. Think I'm making the soil perfect for next years weeds. Will probably plant some cotoneaster [non invasive] to [hopefully] stop that happening.

Is it warm enough to grow a passion fruit vine Pompa? If so, just buy a fruit, dry some seeds and germinate them in a plant pot. They produce fruit the second year, and lovely flowers.

@joan, that's something I had not considered. I will google them to see if they will grow & fruit in our part of the world.

Kiwi fruit; variety 'jenny' seems to be a winner as it's self-pollinating.

canary creeper fills in the gaps(can't eat) and nasturtiums-ok for salads

Decision made. Visited Ken Muir's fruit farm today. Bought a fan trained green gage and a fig. Also bought several of their minarette trees, a blackcurrant bush and rhubarb.

There's a house called Kenmuir near where I live.

Cool Pompa. Good luck with the fig.
I have 2 blackcurrant bushes, about 6 yrs old and get enough blackcurrants for over a dozen pots of jam. My sister once said it is really worth giving soft fruit a bit of space as it is so expensive to buy. I took it on board.

Your sister was right, jess. I used to grow a lot of soft fruit on my allotment in Oxfordshire (gooseberries, rasps, strawberries, blackcurrants, rhubarb) and there were hedges with sloes, elderberries and plums around the plots. No-one else seemed to harvest them so, for a few years, we made gallons of wine. My best ones were the 'generic reds' made with a mixture of fruits.

Hope your new plants do well, pompa.

Yes, one little punnett of raspberries or blackcurrants costs a bomb

Ooooh, all those crumbles! Yum!

Just googled minarette trees (didn't know what they are . They sound a really good way to grow fruit trees. Shame my fence faces the wrong direction.

Is it a bush shaped like a mosque Jangly?
A pagoda tree or a 1960s tower block tree...

Pagoda is a good description, as far as I remember they used to be called vertical cordons. I think the main difference is the very dwarf rootstock that makes them fruit early, we shall see. We love soft fruit, already grow gooseberries and redcurrants (get pounds of redcurrants). Also grow strawberries, but do not have much success, which as Tiptree is famous for strawberries is pretty rubbish on my part.

Not a pagoda. Sounds more like the tower block. Its tall and the branches spread out of the side. Says itsa way to grow fruit without taking upso much room. Ask Pomps.

I gotta go. Holby

Need to go out and murder slugs later... They are eating that daliah that survived being left out in the frost. Perfect slug weather. Perfect weeding weather too. Spent a happy half hour doing some bohemian weeding in bare feet. Grass and warm earth under bare toes. But was this a subconscious rebellion i started to wonder. Someone bought me an afternoon of beauty treatments so i had hands and feet 'cured yesterday. Not really my scene, beauty treatments. Sabotage? Have to report toenails still looking immaculate even if the hands aren't.

Just started raining here, frogs are out en-mass, woe betide any slug that pokes it's head out.

You mean it's raining in the south but not in Scotland? Wow!

Not just South but East Anglia, now that's as rare as rocking horse shi Hens teeth.