Soft Fruits are so simple and yet so important to anyone that wants to grow even a little of their own food, alot of them are also on the top ten list of the best foods for us to eat and the worst in how much they are sprayed before they get to those supermarkets.

Strawberries, Rasberries, Blueberries, Huckleberries, Black Berries, Currents, GooseBerries and the list goes on and on..  These wonderful plants can be grown with ease with a little bit of work and planning in regards to location and planning, they do tend to require some pruning to get them to perform at their best but unlike hard fruit tree’s which can take years to grow to the point of a good yearly harvest, you can plant and often get your first taste later that year.

Many of these plants will produce their own babies, which can then be transplanted out and you will have a way to grow and grow those patches with no money cost out, just time and land. Even if they don’t sucker all on their own, half the time, you can take your trimming, stick them in the pot in the ground and just water and wait, you will be so surprised at how many of them will root up and can be planted out.

If you plant out different kinds, you will be eating fresh picked sunkissed soft fruit from early spring till the last late frost, with a bit of care and the odd time of covering with sheet to help keep the frost off, we were still picking the last handfulls of our rasberries until the first of Nov last year.

Then comes the fact that in the middle of winter, there is nothing quite like that burst of fresh fruit flavor coming in jams, Jellies, muffins, on top of yogurts, or fruit compot, or any other way you like it.. it can be frozen,  its one of the most popular things that can, or mock can, almost everyone even if they don’t can, has made strawberries or rashberries freezer jam.

You can’t easily take your fruit tree’s with you when you move, but you can bring a number of your soft fruits in bare root form with you from place to place if you know ahead of time that you are planning on moving.

When it comes to give away from other gardening folks, soft fruits are one of the ones that is easy to ask for, in the average yard, once you run out of room, you can give it to someone else or it goes to the compost pile and gardeners or at least the ones I know, would raither give them away.

What is your favorite soft fruit? My answer is clear by the photo I picked for this post..a superfood but just yummy.

Breakfast: Bread and Egg Salad

Lunch; Greens with cheese and bread

Supper; Potato’s with cheese and toppings.

Extras; One cookie,

Drinks, Water, Tea and Hot Chocolate.