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as raspberries. My children and grandchildren loved helping with the fruit and vegetable garden and many are keen gardeners themselves. Great idea Pippa. We have been handing out free broad beans at work. They are fantastic for the kids as they grow so fast

summer fruiting raspberries, with Monty Don.Chris Beardshaw gives advice on how to grow blueberries and cranberries.Fight currant blister aphids.Grow new plants from seeds and berries.Browse a variety of fruit plantsChoose plants suitable to full sun

Thank you for the advice on indoors growing. Now the time for 'being brave'. Have been a bit disappointed by efforts in recent years to grow veg and salad outdoors. Cabbages, swedes and other veg have all failed in a horrible clay flinty soil

- posted last blog again cause I did't think original one had gone through and didn't look at the replies! Many thanks to bb for the info. Will enjoy the raspberries now !Regards Angela could anyone advise on goosberry growing i have four healthy looking

Hi all, Last year we moved into to a "tumble down" cottage so the auctioneer called it (after we bought it) !! Which has a 1/2 acre of garden/orchard with tree lines for borders and fields to all sides. The trees have ivy growing all over them which

and the future of the whole grow your own thing. Lovely idea although I think we need the Forest Gardening Cookbook to really have this idea take off. I'm quite adept at a rhubarb crumble and raspberry jam, but have had little use so far in the kitchen for hosta

I was planning on trying to grow raspberries this year, but note that they like a slighty acid soil, to be sheltered from the wind and need constant moisture.  I do not have any cages but was going to plant in a 6' x 4' raised bed in full sun in a

favourites like nigella and clarkia. She also grows masses of vegetables and some fruit – a short row of Autumn Bliss raspberry canes and a couple of blackcurrant bushes are all she's got room for.Laura's very much a self-taught gardener. Over the years, she

was pyrancantha, but the bed in front of it is 120cm wide and might get swallowed up... I want to try to grow some raspberries and beans in the bed in front, if light allows. Many thanks, Bill   Pyracantha can be trimmed. It's prickly, and care needs to be taken

way they would be happy here though, added to which it is very windy - looking out at the tulips ricking steadily out there.   ...I can't recall growing Agastache before... there's one called 'Raspberry Summer', a bright pink that appeals to me