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How to Prune Gooseberries: The Open Goblet Explained
Gooseberry pruning has a reputation for being fiddly, and I think that's mostly because people try to memorise a list of rules instead of picturing the one...
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How to Make Sloe Gin (Classic Recipe)
Sloe gin is the great British hedgerow tradition — a fruit too bitter to eat transformed, with nothing but gin, sugar and patience, into a deep garnet liqueur...
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Popular Berries
Saskatoon vs Blueberry: Which Should You Grow in a UK Garden?
Every year I get some version of the same question from a garden centre newsletter or a fellow allotment holder: "I want a blueberry hedge, but my soil's not...
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How to Prune Blackcurrants: A Simple Step-by-Step Guide
Blackcurrant pruning trips people up for a different reason than most cane fruit: there's no fence full of canes to sort into two neat groups, just a bush that...
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Where to Buy Raspberry Canes in the UK
Raspberries are the one cane fruit you genuinely can't struggle to find — every garden centre stocks them in season, and the range online is huge. The real...
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Where to Buy Blackcurrant Plants in the UK
Unlike a lot of the hybrid berries I write about, blackcurrants are genuinely easy to buy — you'll find them at most garden centres as well as every specialist...
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Recipes
Hedgerow Jelly: A Recipe for Whatever You've Foraged
Hedgerow jelly is the one recipe I'd tell every new forager to learn first, because it doesn't ask you to pick any one thing. Blackberries, elderberries,...
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Redcurrant Jelly: The Classic UK Recipe
Redcurrants are one of the few fruits that genuinely need nothing but sugar to set into a proper jelly — no jam sugar, no lemon juice, no pectin sachets....
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Tayberry vs Raspberry: Which Should You Grow?
The tayberry is half raspberry by parentage, so the comparison is a family affair — but anyone deciding which deserves the sunny fence needs real answers, not...
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Che (Chinese Mulberry): A Truly Rare Fruit You Can Grow in the UK
Every now and then I stumble across a fruit so obscure that I have to read about it twice just to convince myself it's real. Che is one of those. I don't grow...
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Growing Mulberries in the UK: The Forgotten Garden Tree
There's a particular kind of fruit you'll almost never find in a shop, and the mulberry is top of that list. It's not because they're hard to grow or fussy...
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Schisandra: How to Grow the Five-Flavour Berry in the UK
Some plants earn their keep with one good trick, but every now and then you meet one that seems determined to do everything at once. Schisandra is exactly that...
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