Discover guides on growing, foraging, and cooking with berries across the UK.
Here's a little secret that delights me every time I think about it: one of the most widely planted shrubs in Britain produces an edible berry, and almost...
Growing guide →Every now and then I stumble across a fruit that makes me wonder why on earth it isn't growing in every other garden on the street. The cornelian cherry is...
Growing guide →Every so often I come across a plant that makes me wonder why on earth it isn't in every British garden, and the goumi is one of them. Picture a tough,...
Growing guide →Every now and then I stumble across a fruit that makes me wonder why on earth it isn't in every British garden, and the saskatoon is right at the top of that...
Growing guide →By late July, every loganberry grower faces the same happy problem: the plant is producing faster than anyone can eat with cream, and the question shifts from...
See recipe →The tayberry has a fair claim to being the best-flavoured cane fruit you can grow in Britain — and you will almost never find one in a supermarket, because the...
Growing guide →Rosehip syrup is made by simmering rosehips in water, straining the juice twice to remove the fine irritant hairs around the seeds, then boiling it with sugar...
See recipe →Ask what a boysenberry actually is and most people — including plenty who grow them — can't tell you. The hybrid berries are a tangled family of crosses and...
Growing guide →Blackberrying is the one bit of foraging almost every British person has done, usually before they'd ever heard the word "foraging" — and yet most people's...
Foraging guide →Salmonberry is a North American relative of the raspberry that grows, fruits, and tastes remarkably like the raspberries and tayberries you already know — but...
Growing guide →Elderberry syrup is the classic way to deal with a hedgerow glut in September — simmer the berries down with sugar and you get a dark, tart-sweet syrup that...
See recipe →One of the questions I'm asked most often is simply: when should I plant my berries? It's a fair question, because get the timing right and a young berry plant...
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