Multi-purpose juicy, delicious, flavourful berries: eat them fresh, make jams and sauces, bake them into a pie or make wine. This is an old-fashioned garden favourite. Fast growers and quick to mature, shrubs are fruit-bearing 1-2 years after planting. Cream-coloured blossoms appear in early spring, and a heavy crop of large, luscious berries are ready to pick mid-summer. Plant in average, well-drained soil.