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Category Archives: Fruit
autumn delights
Whether it is flowers, foliage, fruit or seeds – every part of every plant’s life is precious with a unique place in the never ending cycle of life. As forest gardeners we are here to watch as this marvel unfolds, … Continue reading
Japanese wineberry
Beautiful, tiny and shiny, both sweet and sharp at the same time, and borne in hundreds on mature bushes, these wonderful wineberries are one of my absolute favourites. There are more than I can pick and we can eat, and … Continue reading
in praise of jostaberries
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 … Continue reading
15 August 2020 – a brief snapshot
I took the pictures below yesterday in response to a Facebook request by someone who wanted examples to show other people. They show one part of the garden just as it was and these plants are visible (or invisible) within … Continue reading
appreciating abundance
For the whole of July we have eaten fresh fruit every day – berries and currants of every kind and cooked fruit some days. The cupboards are stacked with blackcurrant, jostaberry and cherry jam, with redcurrant and whitecurrant jelly, and … Continue reading
foundations for fruitfulness
Over the last two weeks or so we have had persistent, relentless rain or battering winds or, at times, both! However one evening recently there was a short, warm, sunny interlude and I went out to spend time in the … Continue reading
Posted in Borderland Garden, forest garden development, Forest Gardening, Fruit, Fruit trees, Principles of forest gardening, Relationship with nature, the garden of equal delights
Tagged amelanchier, blackcurrant, cherries, gooseberries, jostaberries, redcurrant, strawberries, whitecurrant
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don’t do anything until you have to and then only do the minimum
I am working on a new book and hence all my writing effort has gone into that and there just hasn’t been sufficient spare time to keep this blog up to date. Nor has there been much time to spend … Continue reading
Posted in Borderland Garden, Forest Gardening, Fruit, Fruit trees, Principles of forest gardening
Tagged apple, chokeberry, currants, gage, garlic, kale, medlar, plum, raspberries, tiny fruit trees
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Reviewing 2017
My previous reviews of the year just gone have been more factual and measured than this one will be. However much of my focus through 2017 was not so much what was growing in the garden or how much produce … Continue reading
Garden journal – 6 October 2017
I did some ‘work’ in the garden today. Not counting minor interventions like taking off dock leaves and flowering stems it was the first time I had done anything since pruning the fruit trees and removing the flowering stems from … Continue reading
Posted in forest garden development, Fruit, Polycultures, roots and tubers
Tagged apple, chives, garlic, grape hyacinth, honesty, lamb's lettuce, land cress, narcissi, Oca, tree onoins
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Summer time ….
….. and despite the largely cool, cloudy and damp weather the garden is singing to me. We have eaten the offerings of the berry and currant bushes. The tree fruits are ripening on their as yet slender boughs. … Continue reading
Posted in Borderland Garden, Fruit, Polycultures
Tagged apple, bees, butterflies, chokeberry, damson, gooseberries, mirabelle, Oca, tree onions, whitecurrant
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