All Bar One

At last, almost all of the outstanding fruit plants have arrived. The three blueberries (V. corymbosum 'Spartan', 'Gold Traube', and 'Patriot'), the 'Red Lake' redcurrants, 'Versaille' white-currants, and 'Wellington XXX' blackcurrant, and two-thirds of the gooseberries ('Hinnonmaki Red' and 'H. Yellow', but not the 'Invicta') are all now with us. We'll be trying to plant them on Friday afternoon, before we head down to Cambridge for the weekend.

We may plant them in (biggish) pots that are half-buried, to improve drainage chances, and so they cope better if/when we raise the beds...we'll see. The beds aren't looking too bad, now it's stopped chucking it down, but I think raising them would be wise, when possible.

Now I just have to wait for the last few gooseberries to arrive...