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Our cape gooseberry plants shrivelled and died after one night of frost. Having said that, they cost us nothing: came up by themselves when we spread compost from our compost bin on the ground (presumably from seeds from the one or two mouldy ones you always seem to find in packs from a supermarket)...

Don't know if this helps at all, but in the Hebrides they used to use a system of rows of slightly raised beds with dips in between (i.e. a raised row, with a sunken row beside it then another raised row etc). Food plants were planted only on the raised rows. This helped reduce waterlogging, and als...

We bought a grapevine when we moved here. For two years, it put out the odd, feeble leaf but did nothing more. We didn't like to give up on it, but wanted the space for something a bit more productive, so we moved it. For two more years, it looked like a dead stick, and we wondered whether we'd kill...