A fruity feast

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Food writer and gourmet gardener Mark Diacono sings the praises of home-grown apricots - a crop that's thriving in this warm, dry summer. Forager Alys Fowler braves the prickles of garden (and car-park) favourite mahonia*, harvesting its blue berries to make jams and jellies with stunning colour and unique flavour. And if you're not the only one enjoying your home-grown fruit, Guy Barter has advice on the spotted wing drosophila, a fruit fly that causes tiny white maggots in many kinds of fruit, especially cherries and raspberries. Useful links: How to grow apricots (RHS website) Mark Diacono (Instagram) Alys Fowler (Instagram) Buy mahonia plants (RHS website) Spotted wing drosophila (RHS website) *Note: the species name for Oregon grape is Mahonia aquifolium. This is the principal edible mahonia species, although the berries of some hybrid mahonias are also sometimes eaten. Never eat a wild food unless you're 100% sure of its edibility and identity. If you have underlying health conditions, are pregnant or nursing, consult a doctor before adding new foods to your diet.

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.1	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance.
0:09.3	The scenery changes many times in one season and our finest trees will happily play the part of...
0:14.7	The best hiding place ever.
0:17.4	Booth!
0:18.2	Put your day out of dreams in the hands of the experts.
0:21.6	It's the greatest show in Earth, at an RHS garden near you.
0:25.6	Book tickets online for discounts plus under five score free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:34.6	It's National Allotment Week.
0:35.6	What started as a way of showcasing the benefits allotments
0:39.0	can provide for our health and communities has grown and flourished over the past decades
0:43.6	and culminated in this week's celebration.
0:49.3	My own allotments provided so much joy in my life and without it I feel like I might have lost
0:53.2	my marbles. It's been a place of joy, celebration, parties, community, but also solace too.
1:00.0	And it's got me through some really tough times in the past couple of years.
1:03.0	So in today's episode, we wanted to provide you with a well-earned break.
1:07.0	Whether you've been working hard all year on your allotment, balcony, garden or smallholding,
1:11.1	we'll be chatting with Mark Diakano, food writer, grower and cook about the joys of harvest season
1:16.6	and one particular fruit tree that you'll be wanting to plant in your own garden.
1:20.6	And if you've discovered that you're sharing the fruits of your labours with some tiny white maggots,
1:24.6	my fellow presenter and Horticulture Whiz, Guy Barta, will be joining me
1:27.9	to issue a few words of advice on how to avoid the dreaded spotted winged Rosophila,
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