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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 |