Kitchen Garden

Back to school WITH raspberries!

How can we grow the best tasting fruit possible? It’s a question that is surely at the forefront of every gardener’s mind as the summer progresses. We are not commercial growers who have other criteria such as appearance, yield and shelf-life to consider. Even a small plot is capable of producing more than enough fruit for our needs, and we can pick and eat or freeze within a matter of hours, so no need to worry about storage and transportation.

It’s flavour that drives us to grow our own, and this month in our focus on raspberries we will be looking at how fruit ripens, and what we can do to get the tastiest berries possible. Much of what we’ll look

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