A very warm welcome to our new online customer gallery. Special thanks to all the customers listed below who have shared their heartening stories, historical snippets, tips, tricks and methods to improve both techniques and yield.

We always welcome feedback and should you wish to send photographs of your garden or allotment, please do contact us on 0845 218 5301 or at hort@harrod.uk.com.

(Please note that photography should preferably be sent via email in a .jpg format and Harrod Horticultural reserve the right to select and duplicate submissions for website and/or publication use)

Allen Leech

"Some photographs of my fruit and vegetable cage with current planting displayed. I have attached four images showing views from inside and outside the cage. The cage is 45 feet by 15 feet. I modified the rectangle by taking a small triangular section out of one end to allow it to conform to the space I had available. I have seven raised beds at four feet wide separated by six paths. Against one long wall I have a row of raspberries, which is a permanent crop, and I rotate vegetables through each of the remaining beds. This is the second year of "production" and this year I am growing: runner beans, french beans, broad beans, Leaks, radishes, parsnips, carrots, four varieties of lettuce, beetroot, three varieties of cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, spring onions, garlic, red onions and onion sets."

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Gay Davis

I'm attaching a photo of my 6m x 6m fruit cage that I installed last autumn.  I am sucessfully growing broad beans, lettuce, brussels sprouts, radishes, leeks, carrots, beetroot, parsnips, onions, spring onions and cabbages in the four raised beds.  I have treated the beds with your nematode solution and so far no slugs in them!  I am also growing runner beans in grow bags, dwarf runners in pots, rhubarb, tomatoes and courgettes also in pots.  I have also got three blueberry bushes growing in the ground.  As we are surrounded by woodland the cage is great for keeping the birds off.  So all in all, a great investment although very hard to erect by my husband and I!

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Hazel McGee

"Here is our fruit and vegetable cage, erected earlier this year to replace the ramshackle structure of netting and bamboo poles which previously protected the raspberries from the birds. We found it easy to put up using your clear and helpful instruction sheet. As well as the raspberries, we are growing runner beans, gooseberries, blackcurrants, sweetcorn, purple sprouting broccoli, carrots and new potatoes, all now protected from the rabbits and the pigeons. There is also a small Bramley apple tree, fortunately on a dwarfing rootstock, which happened to be situated where the cage was to go: it seems very happy there, and we are looking forward to getting our apples before the deer this year!"

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Clare Fowler

"When we added an orangery to the house, whilst enjoying the garden view, we found ourselves very close the fruit cages. These were standard utilitarian flat top affairs - Harrod’s new peaked tops with finials were the obvious solution. These look good whatever the weather, even in the recent April snow."

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Joanna Burrows

"Raspberries on the edge, currants in the middle."

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Leonard Edwards 

"Last year I started a small vegetable plot. The sparrow took all the bean flowers, the pigeons ate all the greens and the sparrows dust bathed in all the seed beds. I decided that this year that all my expensive seed were not going to be consumed by the local wildlife. I have been very pleased with the fruit cage. It was easy to erect but as you can see, I decided to paint it." 

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Maxine Fagg

"Please find attached some pics of our wonderful fruit cage. It measures 3 metres by 8 metres. It was easy to put up and is packed with things growing. Still got to finish some of the 'access' points as my cat can't read!"

"Please see photos of the fruit cage that we purchased from you earlier this summer which we are very pleased with.   At the moment it is covering strawberries and raspberries."

Jan Holdstock

"I am sending a few photos of our vegetable cage for you to take your pick from!  That's just what we are doing at present - taking our pick of the crop from it.  We have been very pleased with the cage and grow a great variety of cabbage and peas in it.  We have just cut our calabrese and some spring and summer cabbages and the mange tout which have been lovely, are just slowing down now.  Still coming on are more cabbages and the sprouts.  They are all looking good and the great thing is, the pigeons etc can't get to them!" 

Dr M D Henry

Dr M D Henry

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E V and M Maggs

"Won 1st Prize in Criecieth in Bloom'' for our vegetable garden!"

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Ruth and Hugh Matthews

Robin Skerman

"My wife and I are delighted with it! This year we have had excellent crops of blackcurrants, raspberries, gooseberries, loganberries plus tomatoes, courgettes and peppers. It has also proved useful as a seedling nursery. We are pleased we chose the Heavy Duty model. The rigid side netting made fitting the roof netting really easy. We look forward to many years of good cropping."

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Mary Thornton

"This autumn I plan to buy some raspberry canes but used the spare space for veg this summer. The bend in the frame came from a branch falling from a neighbour's tree in the winter!"

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Harry Trollope

"I attach a photo of our fruit cage. This  is currently being used to grow raspberries, strawberries, blackcurrants and gooseberries." 

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Judith Witts

"Here is my fruit cage - harvest is late here in Argyll at 400ft." 

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Ian Woodcock

"They don't show the full cage (it is quite large) but you do get some enviromesh in action on the brassicas!"

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D B Woodward