Sitting outside yesterday in the cool and damp of an early April afternoon I watched a procession of bumble bees visiting the first flowers on the jostaberry bushes.
As well as being an early food store for the queen bumble bees that are currently emerging ‘jostas’ (as I tend to call them) ripen their fruit early. The berries are lovely straight from the bush and equally good when made into jam or fruit leather. They are hardy and resilient plants and can easily be struck from cuttings. If you haven’t got any in your forest garden I highly recommend that you do!
gardens of delight 
I’m a big fan too – they’re so vigorous and prolific! I put in 20 pruned sticks in at my village hall as a hedge and they’ve all taken, so that’s a nice edible hedge right there.
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