Farmer's Glory

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Like a good bonsai, the tub needs to sit in a saucer which retains water, but not so it soaks the pot base – sit it on a bed of gravel within the saucer. Like currants, they thrive in high latitudes and cold arctic climates – I know they grow very well in northern Scotland – which would suggest they will do better the further south you go in New Zealand .

William Leabeater of Soil Association Exchange also delivered a session about the role of data in agriculture. My 84-year-old neighbour Kate used to entreat me to see her hydrangeas, large seedling avocado trees, and finally her prize gooseberries. PLEASE NOTE: Our King Prawns are of the highest quality, the largest (U5) and rarest fresh water King Prawns available.These very typical New Zealand fruit were inherited from our British settler past and they thrive on the West Coast, especially if you have the canny, green-fingered talents of a retiree and treat them with the attention they crave.

You must come and dig up a bush this winter,” she would say, a twinkle in her eye at the thought of gooseberry-related delights that awaited me as a future connoisseur.They were small bushes, carefully tended, horribly thorny, but covered in glowing red fruit the size of plums, nothing like the old, tiny, green, hard sour lumps of my childhood memories. The interior was very clean and styled beautifully, with crisp white linen cloths and napkins , and very comfy chairs . Tesco head of sustainable agriculture, Natalie Smith, told attendees: “We’re facing both a climate and a biodiversity crisis and we’re seeing the impact of that in the UK on an annual basis.