Winter is the time to plant fruit trees and bushes and fruit for some reason.  Most varities take a couple of years to establish themselves before they start cropping significant quantities (blueberries go crazy after 6 years and can continue for 30 years) so these would be a long term investment. Only problem being that we would probably move down south in 2005 making it a waste of time, but hey what the hell! Recently I'd taken to eating a bowl of muesli topped with blueberries, so two of these plants were first on my list.  Blueberries grow best in acidic soil, and so are often grown in containers filled with ericaceous compost.  The cheapest, largest containers I could find were economy 80 litre dustbins which I partially burried in some of the spare beds.  Filled with a shallow layer of grit for drainage, then a mixture of soil, peat and manure they weighed a bloody ton, but probably could be lifted by 2 people should we ever move. Dustbin grown fruit seemed like a good solution should we ever move house, so I duely bought two more bins for redcurrants, and another for a whitecurrant bush.  And if I could do it for fruit bushes, why not fruit trees as well? Normally these are banned at allotments - neighbours don't appreciate the shading they cause, nor the leaves they drop in the autumn, and unless you choose a dwarfing cultivar, most will reach a couple of metres within a few years.  However, planted in containers they can do quite well, and are much easier to control - the main disadvantage is that in summer they need daily watering, but now that I was working at home I figured I could manage that.  How I managed to squeeze myself and 2 maiden Victoria plum trees into a Corsa, and transport them safely back from the nursery, I'm not sure. A couple of blackberry bushes planted against the fence behind the plum trees (they were only £5 so I skipped the dustbins for them) completed my fruit planting for the year.