Growing Fruit

Selected Articles

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.

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Companion Planting to manage your garden

Companion Planting is a way of managing your garden by using plants in a complementary way that is based on the principle that by planting certain plants close together you can use their natural properties to help with pest control and boost growth.

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Fungi and their classification part one

Part One of an article about fungi and their classification

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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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