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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

appear on the website.I cannot find it, please can you help? regarding blackberry varieties ... I'mvery interested about Doyle's Thornless has anyone tried these?

garden (in my pyjamas) and pick off the fattest, ripest berries to put on my bowl of breakfast cereal. What a great start to the day.To avoid a painful harvest I only grow thornless blackberries, and have trained two of my favourites, Loch Ness

One side of my garden is quite shady at low level and is the one side I still need to plant up! I planted an apple tree last year and it seems to be doing ok but i just bought a blackberry plant that I was going to try and grow under the apple tree

have only just got an allotment and we are planning on growing raspberries and blackberries any suggestions on which are best to buy and grow? Any tips welcome. Kelly, It depends on what you are wanting. My favorites are the Lock Ness blackberry

for the inspiration I've made recent trips up Portsdown hill, to the scrub/chalk downland there blackberrying. It was lovely in the sun, listening to the crickets singing. What's more, I even found several wild-growing apple trees so didn't need to buy apples for our

I've just taken on an allotment and I am unable to identify a plant that is growing on my plot. I think it's a creeper, it has a very thick red smooth approx. 1.5 - 2 m long stems with leaves coming off it at intervals. The leaves are very feathery

I am quite a novice gardener but I really enjoy learning so any help will be really helpful. Problems I have encountered this growing season are my brocoli has been growing ok but can't stop it flowering,should I cut each flowering head off or any

I am a novice so bare withme on these issues. I grow flowers and plants at the of my home in pots and containers. Unfortunately I have noticed leaves turning brown at the edges , I have been looking on other sites for answers but am not sure if I am

It's blackberry time - not those machines, without which many "suits" would feel emasculated, but fat berries swollen by rain and aching for crumble. The blackberry bramble is a weed, and the perfect example of a plant simply growing in the wrong