My previous experience with raspberries has always been very minimal maintenance and very high productivity (far more than I could eat), tbh. The problem this year is that the only canes I had were transplanted from the allotment last year at totally the wrong time of year, just before I handed the keys back. I was hoping that they'd establish in the garden but it looks like they haven't. I have a couple on the way to put in in the winter which should do the trick. I really really love raspberries so would prefer them to anything else similar :)

We already have one apple tree on a dwarfing rootstock in the back garden in the ground (about a dozen apples on it this year!), so I'd rather not another one. The cherry might need netting, in a pot will definitely need fertilising, and like all trees will need a little pruning, but otherwise hopefully shouldn't need much and won't have to try hard to do better than the satsuma... that was a mistake in the first place tbh but there we go. I had it at Marden Square on a very very warm balcony but I think it was overoptimistic of me, and also it really needed a bit more coddling than it got.

The collapsible carrot planters are an interesting idea -- thank you! Will bear them in mind for future reference. I haven't tried cucumbers because I really dislike eating them so am not up for growing them :)