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Picking the raspberries that are ripening now. Watch out for the damsons ripening up – they make good jam although it takes effort to stone them!

Green Manure : Fast Growing Soil Conditioner (Seeds) You could grow some of this and put it on bare soil where you’ve removed a crop recently. It grows quickly and covers the soil and is then dug in to provide organic material!

Sow Winter Jem lettuce now – Lettuce : Winter Gem (January-May) (Seeds)
Little Gem Cos for sowing from September to January and for growing in a unheated greenhouse or in a cold frame for overwinter production (not suitable for growing outdoors).
Try a new broccoli! Brassica : Petit Posy Mix™ (Seeds)nteresting British breeding, a cross between the Kale and Brussels Sprouts species producing ‘rosettes’ of loose frilly edged buttons on a long stalk, in purples, greens and bicoloured leaves. Quite pretty really!

New TY&M exclusive!
Onion : Supasweet™ (Dulcinea) F1 Hybrid (Seeds)
The large semi-globe, copper-skinned bulbs of Onion Supasweet™ are so sweet and juicy they can be eaten raw providing you with a full range of health benefits including vitamin C and the antioxidant, quercetin. Not one for long storage but good for eating and will be lovely in salads!

Get your skates on and start thinking about whether you want to buy any ready grown plug vegetable plants. Now’s the time!
Fruit and Vegetable Plants at Gardening Direct
With 12 fruit trees to pick from you could be planting your very own orchard at home. They take very little loking after and you’ll get to pick lots of amazing fruit.
The soft fruit bushes are excellent value – and grow the rights ones and you could be picking fresh raspberries this time next year.
With gooseberries and blackcurrants available too you’ll find you can make the best jams imaginable!
Their vegetable collections are well worth considering – all the hard work took out of growing things from seed!
Great gardening shop online!

BUy from a great selection of fruit bushes and trees at Jersey Plants Direct. Free delivery on every order now.
Summer Soft Fruits from Jersey Plants Direct
Grow your own fruit – it’s so simple, only requires a corner of your garden and you’ll be able to harvest fruit to eat or cook with. Given the price of soft fruit in the supermarket then it really makes sense to grow some if you have space in your garden. That way you get beautiful sweet freshly picked fruit!
Gooseberries Hinnonmaki Red 3 Plants
£11.99

Rhubarb Champagne 3 Plants
£11.99

Raspberries 5 Plants
£11.99

Blackberries 3 Plants
£11.99

Blueberries 3 Plants
£12.99

Gooseberries 3 Plants
£11.99