Grow BERRIES: it’s easier than you think!
Besides commonly grown Cape gooseberries and strawberries, the range of exotic berries that we can now grow includes three different fruiting seasons of blueberries (early, mid and late season fruiting), black and red raspberries, tayberry (a cross between blackberry and raspberry), thornless blackberry, black currant, cranberry and goji berry, known to be a superfood.
Most berries need cold winters, and for a long time it was difficult for gardeners to grow them other than in the Cape, says Linda Wainman of Just Berry Plants.
New varieties, however, are being introduced for sub-tropical areas, and some berry producers are acclimatising young plants by growing them in tunnels for the first 18 months so that the
