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along. It's nigh on impossible to contain Raspberries and they will come up anywhere and everywhere, growing twenty feet from the parent plant with no distinction between lawn, paving or the neighbour's lawn! So, what to do about this? Some gardeners mow

but the blackberries seem to love it. There are lots of conflicting articles on using ash in the garden (I think it depends on what your growing and what your soil ph is. On the subject of ivy and moss, I never put them into compost as I'm not 100% sure of any

is the right way. thank you for any help... I grow gooseberries as standards with an open framework to increase air flow but it also enables me to pick from underneath and reduce damaging my hands. I use prunings to protect bare soil from cats. I usually puree

etc. as you pot them on, then I reckon that would work. And now I am kicking myself for not doing so on my blackberries and raspberries that I planted a month ago. I have just bought some bush tomato plantlets, and have two more blackberries (Reuben

We have just had an old cypress leylandi hedge cut down and stump grinded. We now have a bare north west facing fence. I would like to be able to plant fruit bushes eg raspberry and blackberry and some pretty climbers along the fence. Any advice re

Last year our John Downie had lots of lovely fruit. We used most of it in jam-making with blackberries, elderberries, sloes and other woodland fruits. Some was even tasty enough to eat raw. We were looking forward to a similar crop this year

show recently, and 80% of the questions people asked me were about their poorly raspberries. I only grow autumn-fruiting varieties at home, which normally avoid attentions of raspberry beetle, but the early berries have been affected. So I wasn’t too

, TeeGee - my pot is approx 40 inches in diameter - oh dear, is it too late to move some of them to another pot ? Would also love to grow blackberries - does anyone know of a good variety? thank you I don't cut the flowers of my strawberries and I've had

strawberry, rhubarb, honey berry, blackberry, red and purple raspberry, red gooseberry, Mirabelle, cherry. None have fruited yet. Am lusting after a mulberry but haven't got the space for another tree. Growing a locquat from seed but have heard that in may

London. In fact all our fruit is unexpectedly looking good this year. Our neighbour even had peaches for the first time I am growing tomato, variety Garden Pearl( a compact bushy variety)in containers on a sunny patio. It`s growing well & setting lots