Berryfull

Ripe & ready

Plenty

Midsummer black

5 a day

                       Soft fruit overlap. Jam experiments.

Current currant current

Early buds

                                              Gooseberry

                                             Blackcurrant

                                              Apple (Cox's)

A warm spell has encouraged fruit bushes and trees to bud about ten days earlier than last year.

Jammy dodgers

They take an age to pick - not possible to harvest in a hurry, or you'll drop them, or worse, spill the container. Plucked a kilo today, probably for jam, with some juice left over for something healthy and / or alcoholic.

Flowers AAB

'A' is for Alyssum and Aquilegea.
'B' is for Blackcurrant.

Soft fruit relay

As the strawberry season comes to an end there are blackcurrants, redcurrants and gooseberries to harvest.

Fruity

 

Currant berries

Berried

Into the black

New Fruit Please

From red to black in the new month as the strawberries are nearly finished and the blackcurrants are worth harvesting.

Green & Blacks

Local Warming

I found a large roll of roofing felt in a skip a few years back. I used some of it to cover the shed roof, some as curtain lining and today I used some to cover over a freshly dug bed in an attempt to warm up the soil ready for some crops next month. It might prevent a few weed seeds from germinating too.



Blackcurrants fruit on old wood but no stems should be more than four years old. These bushes are about four years old and so don't need much pruning. They're a bit close together and the idea is to see which ones do best and remove the others.

Jam Session

Spent an hour this morning with my head in the fruit bushes before a jam session at home.

Season's Eatings

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