Discover guides on growing, foraging, and cooking with berries across the UK.
Every spring I get asked whether loganberries can really be grown in a pot, usually by someone with a paved yard who has fallen for that deep-red, slightly...
Growing guide →Here's something I wish someone had told me when I started out: you don't need a garden to grow berries. A patio, a balcony, a doorstep, even a sunny...
Growing guide →I'll let you in on the gardener's open secret: you almost never need to buy a second berry bush. A single blueberry plant will set you back eight to fifteen...
Growing guide →So you've decided to grow chokeberries. Good choice. The very next question is which one, because black chokeberry and red chokeberry are both fine garden...
Growing guide →If you want a fruiting shrub that more or less looks after itself, let me put in a word for the chokeberry. I've grown a fair few "difficult" fruits over the...
Growing guide →Picture paying five pounds for a single strawberry. In Japan, that's not unusual — a box of twelve premium berries can fetch fifty, and at the truly dizzy end,...
Read article →If you have ever spotted a strawberry that looks like it is doing its best impression of a raspberry, you have met a strasberry. These bumpy, dimpled little...
Read article →Strawberries grow best in slightly acidic, free-draining soil with a pH between 6.0 and 6.5 and plenty of organic matter worked in before planting. Get the...
Read article →Slugs, birds, and aphids are the three most common strawberry pests, and all three are manageable without chemicals. Dealing with them early in the season...
Read article →For the best blueberry harvest, grow at least two different varieties. Most highbush blueberries are technically self-fertile — one plant will set fruit on its...
Read article →Strawberries are one of the best fruits for hanging baskets — the plants trail naturally, the fruit hangs clear of the ground and away from slugs, and a...
Read article →If you've been weighing up hybrid berries for the garden, the chances are you've run into both tayberries and tummelberries and found yourself a bit stuck....
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