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Information & inspiration |
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| Mad about berries | all about berries, including growing, nutrition and recipes |
| Seasonal Berries | all things berries, including recipes |
| Wikipedia | entry for berry |
| Wikipedia | entry for blackcurrant |
| Wikipedia | entry for gooseberry |
| Wikipedia | entry for raspberry |
| Wikipedia | entry for strawberry |
Growing soft fruit |
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| David Domoney | how to plant various types of soft fruit |
| GardenFresco | guide to growing a range of soft fruit, with sections on planting, pruning, picking and pests |
| GardenOrganic | fruit growing manual |
| Love Plants | how to grow 5 unusual soft fruits – gojiberry, honeyberry, hinnonmaki red gooseberry, jostaberry and bluecrop blueberry |
| Mother Earth News | how to grow shrubs and soft fruit in a forest garden |
| Mother Earth News | all about growing strawberries |
| Mother Earth News | growing berries in your back yard |
| Pots2Plots | how to grow fruit |
| Royal Horticultural Society | grow your own soft (and hard) fruit |
| Sustainable Gardener | how to grow soft fruit |
| University of Vermont | berry production information |
Pruning |
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| BBC Gardening | how to prune soft fruit |
| GrowVeg | how to winter prune gooseberry and currant bushes |
| GrowVeg | pruning fruit bushes |
Soft fruit recipes |
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| the Ecologist | soft fruit special: how to make the most of the summer glut |
| Preserving, jams etc. | for more on making jams and preserving soft fruit, see our preserving section |
| Storing & Freezing | recipes and freezing tips for berries and soft fruits |
History |
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| Mother Nature Network | history of grapes |
| The Strawberry | 515 page ebook by George Darrow on the history, breeding and physiology of the strawberry |
| University of Vermont | history of strawberries |
Health & nutrition |
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| Berry Scotland | berries and currants nutritional information |
| Nutracheck | calories in soft fruit |
| Nutrition and You | nutritional information and health benefits for a large range of fruits |
