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the bushes when we first took on the allotment three years ago so they're only really getting productive now. But the amount of fruit they produced last season took us well and truly by surprise - I still have a freezer drawer full of mixed fruit summer

about balance, and as long as it looks green who cares what plants make up your lawn (well, I could do without the moss!).Then there are the brambles. Now those I hate, but they keep invading from neighbouring gardens. Long stems twine their way through

Brambles are the unsung heroes of the fruit garden.A couple of weeks ago I was spring cleaning my store cupboard when I found a stray jar of blackberry jam trapped behind the mountain of marmalade. The pleasure I got when we opened it for breakfast