Flavour bombs

THEY’RE HARDY, VIGOROUS, LONG LIVED AND EASY TO GROW — AND NOTHING TASTES BETTER THAN A HOMEGROWN RASPBERRY

Chloe Thomson

Homegrown raspberries are as bold a flavour explosion as you’ll ever experience: sweet, tart and juicy and never mouldy, bland or disappointing like the store-bought ones. With zero transport miles from garden to gob, homegrown raspberries are the ultimate fresh snack. Once established, the plants are long lived and relatively easy to care for. According to Greek mythology, raspberries are red because a nymph named Ida, while collecting white raspberries for Zeus, pricked her finger and her blood turned the fruit red — hence its botanical name Rubus (“red”) idaeus (“belonging to Ida”. These days, however, it’s possible to grow not only red raspberries but also golden and even black varieties. Most raspberries are native to Europe and northern Asia and the ancient Greeks and Romans loved them as a…

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