Fruit Trees & Bushes
Frankie’s first cider was pressed with a digger and cost her mum a blender. It turned out well, mostly by luck. Here is how to take the luck out of it: what sweet, sharp, bittersweet and bittersharp apples do, and which varieties to plant.
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A dahlia that opens half one colour and half another has not caught anything nasty. It is a sectorial chimera, a one-off genetic slip in the flower’s growing point. Here is why ‘Café au Lait Royal’ is prone to it, how to tell it from virus, and how to try to keep it.
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Why bare-root season is the time to start growing your own fruit A stack of tins will see you through three days…
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Bulbs
How to force bulbs for flowers indoors this winter. A bowl of paperwhites on the table at Christmas fills a room with…
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It's the email (or rather, the panicked photo) we get every single year: a bundle of twigs, looking about as lively as…
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