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Check out our Christmas News posted 4th December...
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Richard decided to try and grow giant pumpkins this year; he could not have timed it worse – late frosts...
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We have started to get availability lists for bare-root and root-balled hedging. Lifting will not start for a week or...

Category Archives: Soft Fruit

Fruit

Posted in: Fruit, Soft Fruit | May 31, 2022 at 17:09 , by Downside Nurseries

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The fruit you buy in the supermarket has to be picked what the trade calls ‘backward’ i.e. unripe, in order to give it shelf life, so it never reaches its full flavour potential. Growing your own is really worthwhile from the point of view of both flavour and economy. A...

Soft Fruit varieties as at 18 January 2018

Posted in: Soft Fruit | January 18, 2018 at 14:16 , by Downside Nurseries

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Please refer to the previous post for information about the soft fruit varieties offered here at Downside Nurseries. Here’s the list of our newly arrived soft fruit as at 18 January 2018; for the list with helpful comments please refer to the plants page on our website in the next few...

Soft Fruit

Posted in: Soft Fruit | January 18, 2018 at 13:58 , by Downside Nurseries

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The long mild autumn seems ages ago but we are still feeling the effects of it. Deciduous plants need to become dormant before lifting so the soft fruit we normally expect in early November has only just arrived. Blueberries: are becoming increasingly popular and are easy to grow provided you...