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Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9887
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 09 8:16 pm Post subject: blackberries
Picked my first blackberry today.. and it looks like its going to be a bumper year for blackberries

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Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 11622
Location: truro

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 09 8:17 pm Post subject:
i found a bramble growing through the greenhouse window and picked some off it last week. I think i have another child who will spend several months of the year making herself purple.

Truffle

Joined: 07 Feb 2006
Posts: 526

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 09 7:15 am Post subject:
we got our first bowlful last week, unusual for this far north truffle

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Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 11622
Location: truro

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 09 7:39 am Post subject:
went for a look down the garden yesterday for some more, found a plum tree my parents didn't know was there. it's sort of in the hedge, but it's no so enclosed that they would have missed it. it's about 10 foot high.

ksia

Joined: 17 May 2006
Posts: 2320
Location: Mayenne, France

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 09 9:31 am Post subject:
Blackberries here too. It feels early - but I'm not really sure.

welsh lamb

Joined: 26 Sep 2006
Posts: 409
Location: Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 09 9:43 am Post subject:
Ours are still in early flower stage - last year had a bumper crop

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28238
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 09 10:12 am Post subject:
Seems amazingly early to me

AnnaD

Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Posts: 2777
Location: Edinburgh

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 09 10:35 am Post subject:

jema wrote:

Seems amazingly early to me

Very! Our raspberries are barely out yet!

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 09 10:39 am Post subject:
Still flowering here. Blackberries that is, not raspberries.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9887
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 09 10:42 am Post subject:

sean wrote:

Still flowering here. Blackberries that is, not raspberries.

well, you are up north... compared to me

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 09 10:45 am Post subject:
Loads of flowers here. It really does promise to be a bumper year.

Truffle

Joined: 07 Feb 2006
Posts: 526

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 09 10:50 am Post subject:
to be fair- our wild ones are a way off, but there's a thornless bush against a wall that's fully fruiting

yummersetter

Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Posts: 3241
Location: Somerset

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 09 1:15 pm Post subject:
our wild blackberries are only flowering now, but the tayberries, sunberries and loganberries are having a great crop, I wonder if that's what you're seeing, something like that gone feral or crossed?

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9887
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 09 2:04 pm Post subject:
mine are definitely bramble. most are only green though..just a few ripe ones

borischarlton

Joined: 06 Sep 2007
Posts: 179

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 09 2:35 pm Post subject:
We had our first here yesterday too. I managed to get to them before the birds!! The brambles are heavy with them this year. Can't wait for bramble jelly Rob

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