Train cane and bush fruits (if desired)

If you want to train raspberries, blackberries, goosberries, redcurrents or whitecurrants read on.

Raspberries - train to three tensioned wires fixed at 75cm (2.5ft), 1m (3.5ft) and 1.6m (5.5ft) from soil level and firmly anchored at row ends.

Blackberries - train as for raspberries using four wires, the lowest at 90cm (3ft), the highest at 1.8cm (6ft). Tie in young growths. After fruiting cut out old canes, re-positioning the new ones.

Gooseberries, redcurrants and whitecurrants - both produce fruit buds on spurs from older wood and at the base of previous summer's growth. They are trained to form a permanent branch framework, often as cordons, but usually as open-centred bushes on short stems, with 8-10 main branches.