Right, what low maintenance plants can put on my allotment??? Blueberry bushes? Other bushes?

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I want stuff that is easy to grow as I'm unlikely to visit it more than once or twice a week.

I want lots of ground cover so I don't have to weed it much. (once I've cleared it )

I've planted 6 miniature trees (designed to be miniature) plum/cherry/apple

Is it the right time for blueberry? I fancy gooseberry and blackberry too.

Raspberry. Redcurrant.

Rhubarb is extremley easy!

But I would also highly recommend putting some weed supressing fabric down around the bushes as this will both help them and prevent weeds which won't help with the time issue.

I've never bought these types of bushes before and I would prefer to buy a bush as my lack of seed growing is legendary.

Any idea of costs? or where to get them in bulk?

Is it the right time mistlethrush to be planting?

I fancy rhubarb

blueberries need acid soil.
Raspberries are great - all these will ideally need netting though.
Gooseberries are pretty easy.
Potatoes? Squash?

Weeds grow everywhere in most gardens without any assistance.

Ask on the allotments if anyone will give you a bit of their rhubarb (the organisers will probably know who has lots and might be willing). Fruit bushes can be ordered on-line through eg T&M or Suttons. However, I've just got some in Aldi - very cheap and nice selection. For £5 I got 2 lots of 3 canes (diff varieties), a red currant, a black currant, a tayberry and a gooseberry...

autumn fruiting raspberries - much lower maintenance than standard ones, and prolific fruiters, ime. More fiddly to pick the fruit though.

I didn't bother netting mine and they were fine.

You need to plant them asap though (November is the normal time).

Blueberries won't thrive unless you've got acid soil (and don't give much ground cover).

What about lots of strawberries (they would need netting)?

Courgettes are great for covering the ground.

I've just bought some bugle plug plants that are supposed to be good for weed suppressing, I'm going to put them around the rapsberries and blackcurrant bushes and see how they go.

Blackcurrant woud lbe my favourite - low maitenance and gorgeous fruit.
Rhubarb good too.

O r save the space for butternut squash -really easy.

Or garlic - even easier
HTH

Lidl have Blueberry, Gooseberry, Redcurrant, Raspberry, Blackcurrant or Blackberry fruit bushes for £1.45 from 7th March. I bought some of their fruit bushes in October and they haven't died yet and are even showing signs of growth!

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Grow blueberry bushes in big containers much easier to keep soil just right Bakker have never let me down for fruit bushes.

Check rules on planting fruit canes and bushes first some are very strict about distance from other plots especially with friuts that produce suckers.

Ask people for cuttings fruit bushes establish well very quickly and most allotment holders love being thrifty.

pumpkin

courgettes

broad beans

very satisfying, just let them do their own thing, sit back and enjoy.

Row of radishes and row of beetroot.

Little onion bulbs - either one or two pounds from poundstrecher.Do not confine yourself to the bush, m'dear!!

at butternut being really easy. I have tried and failed for 3 years. Perhaps they don't like it up north....

I had a cherry tree from LIDL last year for a couple of quid that is going well, flowers looking likely this year!