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Helpful Hints

... the surny bed because sun sweetens soil, and the soil should be sifted when it has dried. A Winter Pruning.— Raspberries, blackberries and the hybrid brambles are similarly treated. Once the stems have fruited, they should be cut to the ground. Thin the ...

Published: Friday 26 January 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 797 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Helpful Hints

... bramble is the lowberry, and the best cooking one is the loganberry. Both have the sap of a red raspberry and the common blackberry. They are more easily pleased with regard to cultivation than raspberries. Ridging.—Wbere ridging is practised instead of ...

Published: Friday 01 March 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 500 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

DO YOU KNOW? Sense Wartime Items

... Items That in Germany it is no longer a case of Do you prefer China tea or Indian tea?' You can have tea from apple pips, blackberry leaves, raspberry leaves or strawberry leaves. That the latest German ersatz is butter perfume? Two or three drops poured ...

Published: Friday 19 April 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 117 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ON THE KITCHEN FRONT BLACKBERRY JAM

... ON THE KITCHEN FRONT BLACKBERRY JAM Allow i lb. sugar to each lb. fruit. The blackberries must not be overripe. Put the fruit in a pan, and after sprinkling the sugar over it, let it stand for 3 Or 4 hours. Place the pan over a low fire and stir with ...

Published: Friday 20 September 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 273 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

GARDENING The Kitchen Garden

... where they will grow bigger than on the hedgerows and where they wi:: not have to be picked before they have blackened? Blackberries, and other equally robust berries, such as loganberries and lowberries, will flourish among the chimney-pots. The better ...

Published: Friday 18 October 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 477 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DREAMY OLD DITTON A Romantic Picture

... that water, under the - tunnel and out again into the litch at the brook field entrance. In September children picked blackberries along its hedges, and walked in fear of the farmer, whose land was protected by the hawthorn. A gate led into the field ...

Published: Friday 24 January 1941
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 612 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Food-Growing Tips

... good-looking, hut the yellow fruits are as good in quality as the red fruits. Pruning the Small Fruits.—The pruning of blackberries. rasPherricP, and of the crosses lwtween the two (the hybrid brambles,. consists in cutting to the ground the canes that ...

Published: Friday 14 February 1941
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 346 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NATURE'S FRUITS Gathering the VVdd Foods

... boys. Since Adam and Eve, this fruit has always been forbidden. Crouton and Hale apples are used for Devonshire cider. Blackberries grow on bramble bushes, either twelve feet in the air or twq inches above water-line. Flies, bluebottles and wasps love ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1941
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 628 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MISCELLANY

... Railway Bridge from the yiew people passing along Mersey Road. It looks as if Jerry In; been here, said one pessimist. Blackberrying is in full swing around the countryside. Motorists and cyclists are amongst those engaged in the hunt for fruit. There ...

Published: Friday 05 September 1941
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 423 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PAGE SEVEN GARDENI'NG The Kitchen Garden The Small Fruits

... become susceptible to the virus disease. The Royal raspberry ha: taken its place. .There are black blackberries and there ;s ihe yellow-fruited blackberry; t li fruits of the latter are stroller. ...

Published: Friday 19 September 1941
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 210 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

11PYOUNG FCITIZENSI LEAGUE A NEW BLACKBERRY

... 11PYOUNG FCITIZENSI LEAGUE A NEW BLACKBERRY Novel Cornish Variety War-time has made most of us look to the hedgerows for additiorft to the fruit for making winter preserves. In this respect, the blackberry, or bramble, ha: come into its own again; and ...

Published: Friday 17 October 1941
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 364 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LOCAL NATURE NOTES A Merseyside Satire By J.C.L

... and was forced to live on chicken. The remaining birds have been laying eggs now six months come Micdemus. Gathering blackberries last September, a reader front West Bank gathered a record crop of hawthorn hips for his canary, along the marshes near ...

Published: Friday 12 December 1941
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 450 | Page: 6 | Tags: none