Discover guides on growing, foraging, and cooking with berries across the UK.
Strawberries can be grown successfully indoors on a bright windowsill, in a conservatory, or under grow lights, and compact varieties produce a genuine harvest...
Read article →Huckleberries are one of those berries that sound impossibly romantic, aren't they? You picture bears ambling through Pacific Northwest forests and buckets of...
Growing guide →If you've ever grown gooseberries, you'll know the particular frustration. American gooseberry mildew coats the fruit in grey fuzz, sawfly caterpillars strip...
Growing guide →The highest-yielding strawberry varieties in UK gardens can produce two to three times as much fruit per plant as average types. Florence, Elsanta, Sonata, and...
Read article →The sweetest strawberry varieties grown in UK gardens tend to share a few traits: smaller berries, thinner skins, and flavours that build on the palate rather...
Read article →Every autumn, Britain's hedgerows turn red with rosehips. Millions of them, hanging in clusters from wild roses and dog roses along every country lane, and the...
Foraging guide →Traditional raspberry canes shoot up to two metres, demand posts and wires to hold them upright, and sucker their way into every corner of the garden they can...
Read article →Top Hat is a dwarf blueberry that grows to just 30 to 50cm tall — compact enough for a patio pot, a balcony, or a sunny doorstep. It produces full-sized...
Read article →Britain's hedgerows are generous things, and most foragers soon learn to spot the friendly faces: blackberries, sloes, elderberries, wild strawberries. But...
Growing guide →Mara des Bois is a repeat-fruiting strawberry with an unusually deep, aromatic flavour that many gardeners describe as closer to a wild strawberry than any...
Read article →Cambridge Favourite is a reliable, disease-resistant strawberry that has been among Britain’s most widely grown varieties since the 1960s. It is not the...
Read article →I get asked this more than almost anything else, and I understand why. Blackcurrants, redcurrants and whitecurrants sound like the same berry in three coats of...
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