BLUEBERRIES GET GROWING
Gardening – like much of life in general – is about the art of compromise. Given unlimited space, time and money we would all be thrilled to have extensive top fruit orchards, cages filled with soft fruit and polytunnels or greenhouses bursting with tender exotica. The limits reality places on us mean that, in practice, hard choices have to be made. If there’s only space for one tree in the garden, should it be apple, pear or plum? Or perhaps a damson or quince? Well, this month let’s look at a fruit that should be high up on everyone’s list of fruit to grow – blueberries. Hardy, relatively easy to look after, suited to pot culture and with fruit that is delicious, packed full of healthy nutrients and only generally available as expensive imported fruit on supermarket shelves, growing blueberries proves that, just occasionally, you can have everything you want.
SPRING
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail!
