Fruit Growing

You’ve spent months nurturing your strawberry plants, watching the first berries ripen from green to white to that perfect deep red — then you walk out one morning and the…

It’s mid-April, you’re scrolling past photos of someone’s homegrown strawberries on Instagram, and you’re thinking “I could never grow those.” You can. Strawberries are one of the easiest fruits to…

It’s late May, you’ve planted your first tomato seedlings in the garden, and by July you’re standing over a plant that’s two metres tall, covered in green fruit that stubbornly…

You’ve got a small garden — maybe 6m x 4m, maybe less — and you want a fruit tree. Not a full orchard, just something that produces actual fruit you…

There’s a particular kind of satisfaction that comes from eating fruit you grew yourself — and it’s not the money you saved (let’s be honest, once you factor in the…

There’s a moment every winter when you look at the apple tree in the garden — the one that was here when you moved in — and think “I should probably do…