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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

always gives me trugs-full of raspberries to take home to turn into jam. Regular as clockwork, John turns up at the plot Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Sunday mornings he is also there. On Saturday he never fails to clean out his bird cages. It won

them down unthinkingly.  Artichokes are to be savoured layer by layer.Paolo Arrigo, promoter of all things Italian in the UK, told me of a simple way to cook artichokes as they do in Rome:1)   Run eight artichokes under water to clean, then cut