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A hardy perennial with small white flowers that give way to tiny red fruit in the summer months. Leaves are also edible.

Grow Pick fruit, dry them on cloth and then rub off seeds into a tray of moist compost in the autumn. Germination takes 6 to 10 weeks. Cover with a plastic bag to protect and keep warm. Plant out on the western side of the spiral when large enough to handle. The mature plants produce runners that can be trained into pots to make new plants. Place a pot full of compost under the green shoot at the end of the runner. Cut away from the main plant once rooted.

Harvest Pick ripe fruit from summer through to early autumn.

Uses Can be made into a treatment to prevent discolouration of teeth.