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You have probably heard of mycorrhizal fungi (or rootgrow™, the RHS endorsed brand we sell here at Pomona Fruits), but wondered exactly what it is and how it can benefit your new fruit plants? Continue reading
Growing rhubarb is one of the best decisions you can make in a kitchen garden, and not just because it’s easy. It’s a crop that comes back stronger every year without being replanted and often delivers its first harvest weeks before almost anything else is ready to pick. Continue reading
Home-grown strawberries are in a different league from anything you’ll find in a shop. Get a few key things right and you’ll be picking sweet, sun-warmed berries from your own garden before you know it.
Growing raspberries is one of the most rewarding ways to go from bare soil to a proper harvest. Sweet and just sharp enough, still warm from the sun, the reward of growing raspberries is an absolute delight.
Once you’ve grown your own blueberries, shop-bought ones rarely cut it. A single well-loved bush, tucked into a sunny corner or a pot by the back door, can produce kilos of fruit every summer for twenty years or more. Still warm from the sun and eaten straight from the stem, the berries you pick taste even better than anything you’d find in a shop.
Plums, gages, damsons and mirabelles are some of the most rewarding fruit trees you can grow in a British garden, and with the right care they’ll produce delicious fruit year after year. Knowing when to prune plum trees is probably the single most important thing you can do to keep them that way.
Pruning pear trees is one of those gardening jobs that pays back far more than it costs. Dedicate just a small amount of time once a year and your tree will reward you with delicious fruit, as well as staying healthier for longer. Continue reading
Traditionally new strawberry beds were planted from fresh dug ‘runners’ whether taken from your own plants or purchased as bare root plants in October/November from a specialist nursery. Fresh dug runners are still widely planted but the drawback is that they are only available in October/November when the ground may not be in a particularly fit state for planting. The modern way to establish a new strawberry bed is to plant in the spring/early summer using coldstored (frozen) runners. Continue reading
Harvesting asparagus is one of the most rewarding experiences for any gardener. Those tender, succulent spears emerging in spring signal the beginning of the growing season and offer a delicious treat vastly superior to store-bought options. If you’ve planted asparagus crowns from Pomona Fruits, you’re in for a pleasant surprise – you can begin your asparagus harvesting journey earlier than most gardeners expect.
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It’s more than fifty years and over three million grafts since I first held a grafting knife in my hands and was captivated by clonal propagation techniques. I marvelled at how a plant with roots would accept what is no more than a small shoot cut from another tree and that in a very short space in time, that shoot would grow and flourish and bear fruits attached to its newly adopted parent. Continue reading
The early Autumn sees the end of the ripening figs in the UK. The shortening days and waning heat prevent the figs from moving to that marvelously soft and often high coloured ripeness that signals a perfect eating experience. Continue reading
Pomona Fruits Spring 2020 catalogue features three new asparagus varieties. The recent move towards greater ‘plant based’ diets and year round availability of asparagus in retail outlets for a modest price has fuelled greater popularity and demand for this versatile vegetable. Continue reading
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