Strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries,
black currents have all been good croppers and we have had plenty of fruit off
them, we just await the small amount of blue berries we have on the small bush
to completely ripen. Also the wild black berries are starting to ripen in the
hedgerow.
The peas and beans are cropping well
too and we can see we will struggle to keep up with them (some are destined for
jars of chow-chow if we cannot give them away). The courgettes are ramping up
production and we have had our first potatoes and greens. The salad crops are
doing well but we are not seeing much come from our carrots or beetroot.
We have planted some dahlias and have
been getting a good show of blooms for cut flowers.
The apple tree is heavy with fruit and
I had to cut a limb of that was resting on the fruit cage as it threatened to
do some damage. We got a couple of bags of fruit off this single branch and so
Sue was busy cooking up chutneys, apple and cider cakes and an apple pie from
those she could not give away to neighbours, along with a few courgette based
chutneys and a couple of jars of pickled gherkins.
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