We all love fruit! How wonderful it is to have fruit trees in the garden. Not only do they provide delicious snacks, but they look attractive and provide shade. Our posts about growing fruit trees sustainable are below:
Raspberries
If you can grow apples you can grow raspberries, and why wouldn’t you? The sweet juicy fruit is delectable when picked ripe and warm from the canes,…
Using Your Excess Lemons
There are two real loves in my life... gardening and food (I hope my partner and parents aren’t reading this!), and I am always chuffed when I am…
Blossom End Rot
Hi, my name is: Blossom End Rot Describe yourself: Firstly, let me just say that I am not a disease, a fungus, a virus or any of that! I am a…
The Importance of Heritage Fruit Trees
This post has been submitted by one of SGA's Cuttings readers. See the bottom of this post for info on how you too can contribute to our website. In…
Pomegranates
If you are after some fodder for your next pub trivia night, this factsheet on pomegranates has it in droves. One of the oldest cultivated fruit…
Strawberries
I adore strawberries (Fragaria sp.), and one of my earliest memories is a birthday cake absolutely heaving under the weight of a sack full of home…
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Peaches and Nectarines
Nothing compares to the taste of a home grown, freshly picked peach or nectarine. Bursting with flavour and heavy with juice, once you have tasted…
Growing Fruit Trees
There's a fruit tree for every space and they aren't difficult to grow. That's the word in all enthusiastic garden manuals. Sure, they aren't…
Cool Climate Citrus
Ahh citrus..who doesn’t love a bit of fresh lime in their beer, a cheescake chock full of home grown lemons, a juicy, just picked mandarin or a…