Tag: Fruit Garden

  • The Best Berry for Big Harvests

    The Best Berry for Big Harvests

    I announce the best producing and best value berry you could be growing in your garden – The Loganberry. It started with one vine and now grows three vines every year bursting with dark red fruit than looks like a longer raspberry. It is incredible value for money and never disappoints with its harvest. What…

  • Strawberry Fields Forever

    Strawberry Fields Forever

    I would be happy growing strawberries in fields forever, if I had a field, but I don’t. So I’ll have to just stick to my small raised bed for now. You don’t need big fields to get a good crop of strawberries, you only need a small space because the plants can be packed together…

  • What I have been Sowing, Growing & Harvesting in June 2024

    What I have been Sowing, Growing & Harvesting in June 2024

    Here’s the end of the month round up of what I have been Sowing, Growing and Harvesting in June. In the UK, June 2024 has been quite summery with 25 days out of 30 being sunny or cloudy. Temperature on average has been 19 degrees centigrade. Until the heatwave of 4 days at the end…

  • Our Fruit Garden – Berries, apple, pear, peach Miniature trees in June.

    Our Fruit Garden – Berries, apple, pear, peach Miniature trees in June.

    We moved into our house two years ago and all we brought with us was 2 blueberry bushes and a thornless blackberry bush and obviously our furniture and belongings! If you haven’t seen our garden yet, see how it came from nothing to flourishing in my story here – If you Build it, they will…

  • If you Build it, they will come – Wildlife in the Vegetable Garden

    If you Build it, they will come – Wildlife in the Vegetable Garden

    If you have seen the 1989 film ‘Field of Dreams’ by Kevin Costner, you’ll know that the most famous line in the film was ‘If you Build it, he will come’. It’s a great film based on baseball, check it out if you haven’t seen it. The saying ‘If you Build it, they will come’…

  • If you Build it, they will come – Wildlife in the Vegetable Garden

    If you Build it, they will come – Wildlife in the Vegetable Garden

    If you have seen the 1989 film ‘Field of Dreams’ by Kevin Costner, you’ll know that the most famous line in the film was ‘If you Build it, he will come’. It’s a great film based on baseball, check it out if you haven’t seen it. The saying ‘If you Build it, they will come’…

  • Columnar Fruit Trees Growing in our Vegetable Garden – 1 Year Growth Update

    Columnar Fruit Trees Growing in our Vegetable Garden – 1 Year Growth Update

    It’s that time of the year again, the time to plant Bare Root Fruit trees from October to January in the UK. I thought I’d update you on almost a years worth of growth of our fruit trees bought and planted last January. We wanted some small fruit trees for our garden, that could be…

  • Columnar Fruit Trees in the Veg Garden – 1 Year Growth Update

    Columnar Fruit Trees in the Veg Garden – 1 Year Growth Update

    It’s that time of the year again, the time to plant Bare Root Fruit tree from October to January in the UK. I thought I’d update you on almost a years worth of growth of our fruit trees bought and planted last January. We wanted some small fruit trees for our garden, that could be…

  • Blue, Black, Rasp and StrawBerries Harvest

    Blue, Black, Rasp and StrawBerries Harvest

    The new fruit plants – 2 blueberries bushes, 1 blackberry bush, 5 summer fruiting raspberry canes and 2nd strawberry plants have all performed extremely well this year with regular harvests from Early July (we are in the UK). If anyone is thinking of getting some berry bushes or fruit canes, do it, you won’t regret…