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Sound advice TMTT, thanks.  What outdoor varieties do you choose to grow?  It might help  my next year's list choices

If you want vines I'd stick with cherries or go for medium-sized fruit like Stupice, Matina and Bloody Butcher. My preference now is for determinates as outdoor vines get battered by summer storms every year. I've tried Latah, Urbikany, Clear Pink Early, Maglia Rosa, Sibirsky Skorospelyi, Dwarf Arctic Rose and Maskotka. Out of those Latah and Maskotka (incredible production on such a small plant) are probably my favourites, but I'd try them all again. Not entirely decided yet but next year Maskotka is a definite and I'll be trying some new varieties out of EM Champion, Sophie's Choice, Utyonok, Sasha's Altai, Dwarf Pink Passion, Cherry Falls and Geranium Kiss. If any of these varieties interest you and I can send you some seed.

I think I'll stick with indeterminates, a) it's what I'm used to and b)  I find the  sprawling space needed for determinates overwhelms me and the slugs get more fruit than I do. I'll follow your advice on choosing early or mid varieties.  I did have maskotka, tumbling Tom red and terenzo in pots in the GH and was very pleased with all of them.  I will source  some Bloody Butcher seeds to give it a try next year, I see premier seeds have them for 99p so not expensive, and I've put my name down for some stupice seeds in the seed swap.  So that's two sorted.  Thanks for the advice.