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Managing the fruit garden

Published: March 23, 2016, 11:28 a.m.

Lucy Chamberlain gardens at East Donyland Hall in Fingeringhoe, Essex.  The frosts of recent weeks have been welcomed by Lucy who has been waiting for them as she tries to manage the fruit garden.  A good hard frost helps to kill off pests and diseases lingering in the soil.  To aid this she removed all the mulch leaving the soil open to the frost as she told Ken Crowther.