What's new, what's growing, what we're learning. Updates, guides and stories for people who take their garden seriously.
The elder gives two harvests: fragrant flowers in early summer and black berries in autumn. Why both are edible only heated and how to process them.
Birds love ripe berries. How to protect the harvest with fine-meshed, taut nets without an animal trap, with fair alternatives and the right timing.
The mulberry is too soft for the trade and therefore the perfect nibble tree: honey-sweet only fresh from your own tree. White, red and black varieties compared.
Perpetual and wild strawberries are small aroma bombs and cheap to grow from seed. How the sowing of the cold and light germinators and their use in the garden succeed.
Tayberry and loganberry combine the robustness of the blackberry and the aroma of the raspberry. How to plant, support and prune the two Rubus hybrids.
An edible hedge is screen, harvest and habitat in one. How to choose the shrubs, stagger them by ripening time and harvest from May to October.
Fungus-resistant PIWI table grapes ripen sweet on a warm south wall even here, entirely without spraying. How to choose variety and site and prune the vine right.
The serviceberry offers four seasons of beauty plus blueberry-sweet fruit. An easy-care, robust shrub for any garden and the edible hedge.
Sea buckthorn is dioecious: only female shrubs bear the vitamin-rich berries, and only with a male nearby. How to get site, pollination and harvest right.
