Soft fruit harvests - How has yours been?

ruffmesiter_69 · « **on:** June 19, 2007, 20:48 »

Hi there peeps,

Just to let you know this week has had a fabulous cropping of soft fruits, including gooseberries and strawberries.

How has your soft fruit been this year? As good? better? or even dare we say worse?

This year seem especially good for soft fruit.

News from the plot this week also includes, broad bean harvesting, blackfly removal, liming the waterbutts and the brassicas blowing!!?!?!?!?

Regards
Lottieblogs

richyrich7 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 19, 2007, 20:52 »

I've completely neglected my raspberries this year and had tons off.

DD. · « **Reply #2 on:** June 19, 2007, 22:01 »

Seem to be going quite well.

Just made 22 jars of gooseberry jam.

Strawberries are new plants, but we have a good few teas out of them.

Loganberries are heading for a bumper crop & are starting to come in (Oh No.... more jam).

Summer raspberries, (again new stock), starting to come in, but don't expect too much off them this year.

Autumn Bliss raspberries - think I'll keep the street supplied again this year - look to heading for buckets full. Yup - jam again.

(No - I don't turn them ALL into jam).

Blackcurrants - well laden - yet more jam!

As that well know horticulturist, Bob Marley said

Were jammin (jammin, jammin, jammin)
And were jammin in the name of the lord;
Were jammin (jammin, jammin, jammin),
Were jammin right straight from yah.

(No I don't turn them all into jam!)

ziggywigs · « **Reply #3 on:** June 19, 2007, 22:23 »

Picked my first gooseberries today.....don't know about anyone elses but mine seem much bigger than last years...rain has helped i suppose.

philmay · « **Reply #4 on:** June 20, 2007, 16:00 »

We are inundated with rasberries, filled 5 plastic ice cream tubs with them on Sunday!

But our strawberries are now a distant memory, they were really early but only lasted for a couple of weeks. :cry:

ruffmesiter_69 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 21, 2007, 08:08 »

we have autum rasps so we have a wait until we get some.

little sweetpeas · « **Reply #6 on:** June 21, 2007, 09:39 »

Quote from: "richyrich7"

I've completely neglected my raspberries this year and had tons off.

Same here - been so busy doing everything else that haven't really done anything with them. I've been picking them every other day, everytime I visit there are loads more. I'm going to have to turn some into jam.

yummy · « **Reply #7 on:** June 22, 2007, 22:11 »

We had loads of gooseberries but they suddenly disappeared so I guess that they either dropped, the birds ate em or there is a gooseberry thief on the plot somewhere. We don't like gooseberries anyway so we don't mind.

The strawberry patch has been excellent with 4 big harvests so far over the past 2 weeks. I'm not sure what the flooding will have done to them though. Will be checking it out tomorrow.

There were a few blackcurrants ready a couple of weeks ago. Again will check up on it all tomorrow.

noshed · « **Reply #8 on:** June 22, 2007, 22:17 »

Fantastic rasberry crop. Great loganberries.

ruffmesiter_69 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 24, 2007, 11:24 »

just making a gooseberry pie right now hmmmmm

starmoonlilly · « **Reply #10 on:** June 24, 2007, 11:32 »

Had loads of strawberries, but lost most of them to slugs :evil:

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Soft fruit harvests - How has yours been?

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