UK berry growing & foraging
Expert guides to growing, foraging and cooking every kind of berry — from strawberries and raspberries to loganberries, cranberries and goji.
What to do right now
Plant new strawberry beds. Take hardwood cuttings from currant bushes. Autumn raspberries are at their best.
All growing guidesGooseberry pruning has a reputation for being fiddly, and I think that's mostly because people try to memorise a list of rules instead of picturing the one...
Growing guide →Sloe gin is the great British hedgerow tradition — a fruit too bitter to eat transformed, with nothing but gin, sugar and patience, into a deep garnet liqueur...
See recipe →Every year I get some version of the same question from a garden centre newsletter or a fellow allotment holder: "I want a blueberry hedge, but my soil's not...
Read article →Blackcurrant pruning trips people up for a different reason than most cane fruit: there's no fence full of canes to sort into two neat groups, just a bush that...
Growing guide →Raspberries are the one cane fruit you genuinely can't struggle to find — every garden centre stocks them in season, and the range online is huge. The real...
Read article →Unlike a lot of the hybrid berries I write about, blackcurrants are genuinely easy to buy — you'll find them at most garden centres as well as every specialist...
Growing guide →Find exactly what you need across our five guide categories.
Soil prep, planting & seasonal care
54 guides Explore →Strawberries, raspberries & more
31 articles Explore →Unusual UK-hardy varieties
3 articles Explore →Wild berry ID & safe picking
11 guides Explore →Jams, pies & preserves
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