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The bright orange edible berries, often called Seaberries, are:

• rich in vitamin C
• high in antioxidants
• known for healing, if rubbed on wounds
• very bitter

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Sea Buckthorn grows on poor soil, in harsh coastal environments and only the female plants carry berries.

Sea Buckthorn berries are popular amongst hunter- gatherers who make drinks and jams from them.

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Strawberry Elegance

They are offering 12 runners of Strawberry Elegance and 100g of Strawberry Fertiliser FREE* for every visitor – worth £19.98!

*Just pay £4.95 postage

Strawberry ‘Elegance’ – A fabulous garden variety producing enormous, tasty strawberries that are up to 30% bigger than the supermarket standard, with a high percentage of Class 1 fruits. Strawberry ‘Elegance’ is well suited to growing in containers for a space saving crop on the patio. Strawberries can be planted out as late as November. Plants supplied as runners.

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Comice-Pear

The Doyenne du Comice pear fruit is

• large
• broad
• an irregular shape
• yellow in colour, with a greenish tinge and a scattering of red brown spots and blotches
• very juicy with creamy white flesh
• aromatic with a tangy, sweet flavour

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Gardening Direct will supply Comice Pear Trees.  The Doyenne du Comice is known as the Queen of the Pears. 

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Consumption of White Fruits and Vegetables Is Associated With Lower Risk of Stroke.

A study by Oude Griep et al, published in the September issue of Stroke, examined the association of fruit and vegetable intake categorized according to the color of the edible portion with 10-year incidence of stroke.  They found that higher intakes of white fruit & veg protect against stroke; while coloured fruit & veg do not. 

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Apples and pears are better sources of potassium.  The study found that each 25 gram/day increase in consumption of white fruit and veg was associated with a 9% lower risk of stroke.

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Their sleep research department has found that Montmorency cherry juice improves both the quality and the duration of sleep.  Dr Ellis, a member of the research team,  said: “…. the melatonin contained in tart cherry juice is sufficient to elicit a healthy sleep response.”

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Sour cherries are:

• grown in North America
• used for cherry pies, jams, and juice
• too tart to eat raw
• smaller, more globular & softer fleshed than sweet cherries

The Montmorency cherry is a variety of sour cherry (Prunus cerasus). It was the The Montmorency cherry that was shown in the latest research to have a beneficial effect on sleep.

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This is a bumper year for mulberries. 

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 The trees are laden and the fruit is of excellent quality.

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The tree in this picture was grown from a cutting – the mother tree was in Patrington Rectory. 

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So many mulberries are found in Rectories.  The story is that Queen Anne decreed that all rectories should have a mulberry tree – to support the silk trade! 

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Silk worms feed on the mulberry leaves.

We will certainly be able to feed on the juicy mulberries we have put in the freezer over the winter!

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This very late, small, wild plum has almost disappeared. But Paul Davy has sent me the news that young specimens grown from a Lincolnshire site may become available from Autumn 2012.  Stock will inevitably be limited for several seasons.

Please click this link to enquire in Autumn 2011 for an update on the Lincolnshire Scad Plum.

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The ripe cherries have sweet, firm flesh.  There are many recipes using cherries, but our favourite is cherry clafoutis.

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We have put old tights over the cherry branches in the past, to keep the birds off.  We will have to be on our toes next year to stop the starlings taking the sweet cherries again!

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TopVeg has replied:

Victoria plums will ripen a little off the tree – if kept at room temperature. Ripe bananas in amongst them will help speed the process.

Nothing can beat a plum ripened on the tree – but wasps seem to get the plums just before they are ripe enough – so they always beat me to it.

Better to pick the plums and save them.

Have you tried enviromesh? It depends on the size of your tree – but if you can totally enclose the tree, or part of it, in enviromesh the wasps will be kept off.

Reducing the wasps will also help. Try to track down the nest by following the wasps home. They often nest quite close to plum trees. Once the nest is discovered, it can be eliminated. Jam jar traps full of sweet liquid can be covered with paper. Then a hole in the paper will let the wasps in, but not out. There are various commercial versions of this. Lakeland have one at http://www.lakeland.co.uk/2851/Wasp-Catcher?src=gpgar.

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These Sonata Table Top Strawberries were planted in May  to replace those lost in the cold winter.

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They were purchased as “waiting bed plants”  from the continent.  They are designed to give the maximum yield in the first year, and to crop in 60 days after planting.

 ”Waiting bed plants” are an expensive option, but a heavy crop in 60 days will help the cash flow! 

  The Sonata Table Top Strawberries are available for Pick Your Own at Skylark Farm, near York.

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