How to have a Mini Orchard in Your Garden
What a delightful thought – to walk outside on a summer’s morning and pick fresh peaches for your breakfast! But […]
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Do Geese eat Gooseberries? and other Questions
Do Geese eat Gooseberries? and other questions answered by yours truly. Some will entertain, some will educate, but hopefully will
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Bare Root Fruit Bushes
Gooseberry crumble, blueberries sprinkled over your breakfast granola – bare root fruit bushes are the promise of treats to come!
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Oranges and Lemons Fun Facts
“Oranges and Lemons say the bells of St Clements” Or so goes the eighteenth century nursery rhyme. Which at the
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Choosing Apple Varieties to Grow in Your Garden or Orchard
Choosing apple varieties involves the pleasurable task of tasting many different apples to discover which ones you like! Whether you’re
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Fruit Trees and Small Gardens
Why do some people – including some garden designers – presume without any evidence to the contrary that growing fruit
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How to Grow Oranges and Lemons
How to grow oranges and lemons in the British climate – with and without a greenhouse. Queen Eleanor of Castille
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Pitmedden Apples
This Pitmedden apples blog is inspired by a visit I made to the gardens in September 2021. It was my
Growing Gooseberries in Your Garden
Growing gooseberries in your garden – a wonderfully alliterative title for a practical gardening blog, don’t you think? Gooseberries are
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What is a Nuttery?
What is a Nuttery? A simple definition would be to call it an orchard where nuts are grown instead of,
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13 Black Fruits to Grow for Halloween
13 Black fruits to grow for Halloween – because it’s a fun, spooky idea but one which allows you to
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Harvesting Apples – Q & A
Harvesting apples is generally easy, but there are times when things aren’t quite as straightforward as you’d hope. Perhaps you’re
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Cordon Apple Trees – Garden Surprises when Pruning
Cordon apple trees are an excellent way to grow one of Britain’s favourite fruits in a small space. But they
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Bramley Apple – from chance find to nation’s favourite
The Bramley apple is undoubtedly Britain’s favourite apple for cooking with. Indeed ‘Bramley’ is almost synonymous with ‘cooking apple’ for
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Growing acid loving Fruits
Acid loving fruits are those which need or prefer an acidic soil to grow in. Rather than starting with how to
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Beautiful Apple Blossom Trees for Your Garden
Apple blossom time is spread out over a number of weeks, months even, from April through to June. This has
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Quince Cheese
What is quince cheese? It is a preserve made with the fruit of the quince tree. Although it’s not the
Forced Rhubarb – Growing by Candlelight
Forced Rhubarb – Growing by Candlelight is a celebration of a British farming method that has created a world renowned
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Bare Root Fruit Trees
Bare root fruit trees are an economical way to plant yourself a mini orchard in your garden or allotment. As they
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Strawberries, Summertime, Grow your Own Fruit
Strawberries are a popular grow your own fruit. This is because they are fairly easy to grow; generally produce a (small)
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Quince Trees
Quince trees – Cydonia oblongata – are related to both apples and pears and like those fruit have a long
Strawberries and champagne – Grow your own Wimbledon treat
Admittedly it’s a bit late to start growing your own strawberries for this year’s Wimbledon, never mind planting a vineyard from
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A bumper apple harvest expected for 2013
The poor weather of 2012, particularly the wet summer, was disastrous for the apple harvest. By comparison 2013 looked like
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Rhubarb – Growing Your Own Rhubarb Triangle
The Yorkshire Rhubarb Triangle is nothing to do with geometry and everything to do with tasty fruit … or vegetables…
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Apple Trees – Designing the Garden of Eden?
Designing a garden to include lots of fruit is always satisfying. At this time of year my imagination leaps off
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Strawberries, seeds and tennis
Did you know that there are over 200 seeds in the average strawberry? That’s more seeds than are appearing at Wimbledon this year.
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