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Grow some fruit

by Diane - July 20th, 2012.
Filed under: Suttons Seeds.

It’s easy and good for you! Grow your own fruit!
Once you have you can eat it fresh, freeze it for later, or turn it into pies or jams!
There are loads of jam recipes out there and it’s mostly just adding sugar and cooking keeping stiring!


Pinkcurrant Rosa Sport – 5 Litre Pot
 £21.99
You’ll rarely find these large, sweet, rose-coloured berries in the shops, so why not grow your own! They’re delicious in puddings and pies, jams and jellies. Crops start to ripen at the beginning of July. Ideal for gardens or container growing. Supplied in a 5 litre pot.Lubera varieties – Lubera is a Swiss nursery owned by Markus Kobelt. This man is passionate about fruit, and he has continually strived to create new and improved varieties, always with the goal of producing plants that are easier to cultivate (all will thrive in the UK climate), more resistant to disease and always better tasting too. His breeding programmes have resulted in many exceptional new varieties of raspberries, blackberries, currants and apples, amongst others.. 1 Plant

Fourberry Black Gem
 £16.99
Ideal for flower or fruit garden, the magnificent Fourberry is outstanding in four important ways:- Pretty yellow flowers- Delicate scent- Bumper crops of sweet, juicy berries- Spectacular autumn foliageThis variety has been selected by Lubera from several thousand ribes aureum (golden currant) seedlings, for the superior quality of its flowers, fragrance, fruit and autumn colour. It puts on an attractive display of flowers in April and early May, followed by a mouth-watering harvest from July to mid August. Enjoy the large, sweet berries fresh or in jams and juices. The plants are very hardy and drought-tolerant too! Height 1.2-1.5m (4-5′). Supplied in 13cm pot.. 1 Plant

Tayberry Buckingham Plant (Rubus)
 £17.99
Tayberry is a cross between blackberry and raspberry. Provides an abundant crop of large, purple and deliciously sweet fruit from mid July until late August. A super dessert fruit, but also good for freezing and jam making. Supplied as 1-year-old pot grown plants.. 1 Plant

Strawberry Tree (Arbutus unedo)
 £24.99
Superb, slow-growing, shrubby trees with glossy bright green leaves, which take on attractive colours in autumn. The pretty, bell-shaped white flowers are produced September-November, at the same time that the fruit from last year are turning red. The fruit look very much like strawberries (hence the name) but sadly don’t taste like them, however they can be used in jams and liqueurs. Height up to 8m (26′). Supplied in a 3 litre pot.. 1 Potted Plant

Rhubarb Raspberry Red
 £12.99
Rhubarb is fast becoming one of the most sought after ingredients in the kitchen – and so easy to grow too. Rhubarb Raspberry red produces early crops of deep red stalks that are perfect for jam-making. A relatively early cropper.. 1 Plant

Redcurrant Lisette (Ribes rubrum)
 £14.99
Large yet compact bunches of currants that are big and fleshy with smaller seeds, and a delicious flavour – a delight for summer desserts & jams! Plants are upright in habit and show strong disease resistance. Pick from early July. Supplied in a 13cm pot.Lubera varieties – Lubera is a Swiss nursery owned by Markus Kobelt. This man is passionate about fruit, and he has continually strived to create new and improved varieties, always with the goal of producing plants that are easier to cultivate (all will thrive in the UK climate), more resistant to disease and always better tasting too. His breeding programmes have resulted in many exceptional new varieties of raspberries, blackberries, currants and apples, amongst others.. 1 Plant – 13cm pot

Plum Victoria (Prunus domestica) – Bare Root Tree
 £19.99
Probably known by all, Victoria is excellent for pie and jam-making and also delicious eaten fresh from the tree. Self fertile and a good pollen provider for other plum varieties, it crops in late August. Grown on St Julien A rootstock, which is semi-dwarfing, providing a medium-sized tree of 2-2.5m (7-8′). Supplied as a bare root tree.. 1 Tree

Pinkberry Pink Lemonade Plant
 £14.99
If you like blueberries, you will love this fantastic, deliciously sweet berry, which is taking America by storm. The sweetest, most spectacular looking berries you have ever tasted or seen! This stunning ornamental plant has a bushy upright growing habit with fine pointed leaves which turn bright orange in the autumn. The pinky white bell-shaped flowers in the spring give way to heavy crops of translucent white berries which turn green and then a bright pink when they mature in August and September. Superb eaten straight from the plant or cooked in puddings, pies muffins or even jam – in fact, anything you would do with a blueberry you can do with a pinkberry!Why grow Pinkberry Pink Lemonade?heavy cropping plant2x as sweet as blueberriesYou can grow it anywhere in pots or tubs Eat straight from the plant or use in cookingin our opinion, the most spectacular, sweetest fruit we’ve ever seen! Get the WOW factor and astonish friends and family as well as children who will love the bright colour and delicious sweet flavour. 1 potted plant

Blackberry Helen (Rubus hybrid)
 £19.99
Large, firm, superbly flavoured blackberries produced in abundance from early July. Excellent eaten fresh, frozen or made into jam. Supplied as 1 year old pot grown plants.. 1 Plant

Amelanchier Tree – (Canadensis) Prince William
 £19.99
A beautiful little tree/shrub that will put on a dazzling spring show of star-shaped white flowers, followed by a tasty crop that’s ready to pick from early July, and then by glorious autumn foliage. The small, dark, reddish-purple berries are packed with vitamins and antioxidants, and have a unique sweet-and-sour taste which makes them delicious straight from the tree and ideal for mixing with other fruit for juices, jams and puddings. Plants are very hardy and will grow in most soils. Supplied in a 5 litre pot. Mature height can grow up to 9m (30′).. 1 Plant