Fruit

Autumn and winter is the perfect time of the year to plant garden trees and in this blog I want to cover fruiting trees for the small garden! Now, you might expect me to launch off into apples, [...]

Growing British apples gives us the opportunity to eat something better! A visit to your local supermarket is unlikely to provide you with much choice and certainly few British varieties. So if [...]

Storing apples should be easy and especially if you follow a few simple rules. From time to time we enjoy a bumper harvests of tree fruits. Any year, and particularly during financially [...]

How to grow figs – after reading this I hope that you’ll try it yourself! Figs are often regarded as an exotic fruit and many assume that they are difficult to grow. This is not the [...]

Renovating old fruit trees is the perfect job for a cold day with blue sky and bright sunshine! No more so than after too much rich food and drink! Those bright days should entice you out into [...]

To grow early strawberries is easy and in this blog I’ll tell you how I do it. As with much of life forward planning is everything. If you want home grown tasty and fresh strawberries in [...]

In this blog I’ll reveal the benefit of grafted plants to the gardener. Because nurserymen put in the hard graft so that gardeners benefit from better plants to grow! Let me explain. A [...]

Intensively trained garden fruit trees have a lot to offer. It’s a good time to consider planting more. Now before you say ‘I’ve no room left’ I want you to just consider how useful and [...]

Newer varieties of raspberries are well worth considering. Many are a marked improvement on old varieties! As we approach the end of another planting season for bare root fruits, I thought you [...]

Autumn Planting is best but why have we got out of the habit? When I left college and started my first job, it was common practice to plant your garden in the autumn. Now we seem to wait for the [...]