Growing Fruit

Selected Articles

Mini vegetables - crops of the future? Part Two

Part two of a two part series on growing mini vegetables, their history, benefits and drawbacks as well as which mini vegetable crops and cultivars to grow

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Mini vegetables - crops of the future? Part One

Part one of a two part series on growing mini vegetables, their history, benefits and drawbacks as well as which mini vegetable crops and cultivars to grow

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Chitting or Sprouting Potatoes

Without chitting some tubers may fail to grow, causing gaps in the rows, others may send up as many as seven or eight stems which, being overcrowded become tall and spindly. This weakened growth will yield only a poor crop of tubers, most of them small.

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The compliment to vegetables, fruit. These articles will inform and help you to grow better fruit

Growing Rhubarb

Rhubarb, although always cooked and eaten as if it were a fruit, is usually grown in the vegetable garden - and rates as a vegetable on the show bench.

Growing Rhubarb

Garden huckleberries

Growing garden huckleberries is not a difficult matter and although they are very sour raw, they can be used in pies, jams and preserves and make an excellent wine

Garden huckleberries

Plums, Damsons and Gages Part 2 by Martin Welsh

The second part of an article considering Plums,Damsons and Gages covers the history of these important fruits from neolithithic times to the present day

Plums, Damsons and Gages Part 2 by Martin Welsh

Plums, Damsons and Gages Part 1 by Martin Welsh

Plums,Damsons and Gages covers the history of these important fruits from neolithithic times to the present day

Plums, Damsons and Gages Part 1 by Martin Welsh

Strawberries by Martin Welsh

Starting with the history of the strawberry through varieties, how best to cultivate strawberries and protect them from pests, this article covers strawberries in depth

Strawberries by Martin Welsh

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