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and let them pick and use the chemicals they need for themselves just as our bodies do when we eat the fruit and veg. we grow. Does anyone have a tried and tested recipe for blackcurrant juice/cordial please, as I need to use up the frozen ones in my

rhubarb home with me to grow in the garden.I can not imagine not having my own home grown rhubarb and strawberrys.I too like the recipe ideas and will give them a try. I have some well established crowns (variety unknown) which crop well every year, though

centre. The latter turned out to be an annual chrysanthemum: 'Eastern Star'. All of the above are easy to grow and will also help attract vital pollinators to your vegetable crops.There's still time to get dahlias started now and get a head start

rasberry bush,a victoria plum tree,2 blackcurrant bushes,a blackberry bush and 2 redcurrants,can anyone give me any hints or tips about how to grow these succesfully,or the P H of the soil they need ,or well anything really awwwww comeon someone speak

delicious. They do get out of control very easily as you can see in Perthshire where they grow in the hedgerows like blackberries, having escaped from the fields. but they are easier to dig out than brambles and not so prickly. My single raspberry plant has

. I always wonder about these organice solutions, they never seem to have scientific recipes..... My blackcurrants are infested, I've squashed a few million today, but found some other little maggot/mini caterpillar like creatures about 2mm to max 10mm

Even on a drizzly day like today I go out in the garden and inspect my roses and take off and dispose of any leaves with blackspot on. I've never needed to spray in this garden for the 47 years I have been growing roses. My "Albertine

but they are still green should I pick them and put them in a bowl with a banana to see if they will ripen? I too am relatively new to raspberry growing having moved to a house which has them in the garden. I have some very large rasps with thorny stems

a big hole beneath it. There are lots more places in my garden for a fox or badger to live too without jeopardising the Bramley. Still, we would be in a sorry state without our wildlife. I have picked a large crop of blackcurrants and the vine

,Plums,Cherry, Rhubarb, Blueberries,Blackcurrant, Blackberry and Raspberries all sourced from the £ shop or similar . Most cost a £, the trees were only £5.  I'm so excited, I look at them all at least three times a day, all appear happy, me as well.  I have even learnt