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1980 - 1989
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Bedfordshire, England

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Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England

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Involvement

... Involvement B ® PRIZE blackberry Hannah Reeve is as light as a feather — or rather Mr Edwards said: *‘lt was a super day and the atmosphere was marvellous. We wanted to involve families as much as possible and I think we achieved that.”’ Certificates ...

Time for mushrooming and making bramble jam

... Time for mushrooming and making bramble jam I NOTICED the first of the blackberries this morning; they were forming on the thick clump of bramble growing in the unused avenue of limes behind the Big House. Several of them were even fully formed and ripening ...

n tidy up s of ge by rain

... cutting out old fruited growths. Carefully preserve the new growths, thinning out weak ones and tying in strong wood. *Treat blackberries similarly as soon as the crop has been picked. Maybe I am a bit greedy, but sometimes when tying in the new growths I tie ...

GARDENING WITH BILL SOWERBUTTS

... are laid on sand in trenches about two inches deep. Tip cuttings or layers can be obtained just in the same way as with blackberries and loganberries — by bending down and pegging the tops of the current year’s growth into moist soil. After rooting, the ...

The fruits of good pruning

... six leaves before fruit is picked. Winter pruning — prune leaders to a sound bud, spurring back laterals to three buds. BLACKBERRIES, LOGANBERRIES AND HYBRID BERRIES: Remove old canes after fruiting and tie in new wood. For really detailed information ...

With Roderic Quenby

... wheat on the main rides and the pheasants arrive as if they are starving, in spite of the fact that the hedges are full of blackberries and other fruits. As soon as the feeding is done he will be out with his dogs, driving the birds back to the woods, otherwise ...

Our new puppy caused havoc in the hen-house

... commotion from the hen-pen. by flipmpcd'flm ed up from the table and reached for the gun, thinking that a stoat, fox or from the blackberry. bushes, or stop him from crushing the flowers. We walked across to the barn, opened the door and walked in. Teal stopped ...

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... cutting out old fruited growths. Carefully preserve the new growths, thinning out weak ones and tying in strong wood. *Treat blackberries similarly as soon as the crop has been picked. Maybe I am a bit greedy, - , but sometimes when tying in the new growths ...