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7 postsYou do not fertilise all berries the same. Acid-lovers like blueberries tolerate no lime, currants and gooseberries are potassium-hungry, raspberries undemanding. Here is how to sort your berries into a few groups and give each the right thing.
With a little system strawberries bear richly over years. Three decisions count: June-bearing or everbearing, planting in August and the clever handling of the runners. Plus the straw trick against grey mould.
Thornless blackberry varieties turn the feared bramble into an easy-care nibbling plant. With the simple two-sides rule on the trellis you keep the pruning effortlessly in hand. Here is how to train them and how to spot the right harvest moment.
Every berry has its own pruning time. Bushes like currant and gooseberry in winter, cane berries like raspberry and blackberry after harvest. Your pruning plan for the whole berry garden, with the one rule of thumb that always holds.
Fruit that rots brown on the tree and carries pale spore cushions in rings: brown rot. Why the fungus enters almost only through wounds, why the overwintering mummified fruit is the key, and how to curb the rot without sprays.
Bright orange spots on the pear leaf: pear rust looks dramatic but has a decisive weakness. It absolutely needs a juniper as its second host. How to break the cycle and get rid of the rust for good.
Hardy into the bed, Mediterranean into the container: why the variety name decides frost hardiness, how the fig forms two harvests, and when it is truly ripe.
