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boisdevie1

Joined: 11 Aug 2006
Posts: 3897
Location: Lancaster

Posted: Wed Jul 09, 14 12:25 pm Post subject:
Blackcurrants have done well this year. Picked 28kg. So that's enough jam to last me until 2025.

tai haku

Joined: 17 Apr 2011
Posts: 472

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 14 3:40 pm Post subject:
hardly impressive by other's standards but these are the first ever fruit harvested from my orchard Prunus cerasifera 'Gypsy' 20140712_163415 20140710_220859

earthyvirgo

Joined: 24 Aug 2007
Posts: 7972
Location: creating prints in the loft, Gerlan

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 14 3:57 pm Post subject:
Currently picking between half and 1lb raspberries every day. EV

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16101

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 14 6:55 pm Post subject:
Congratulations Tai Haku. It is lovely to get the first fruit from something you have planted. We had half the wild raspberries I picked from the woods last night. If the weather holds and I get the time, I might pick enough to make a couple of pots of jam from them.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9891
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 14 9:29 am Post subject:

picking 800g- kilo of raspberries a day - need to think of more raspberry recipes!

no damsons or gages this year

but have Victoria and Majorie seedling have fruit - nothing like ready yet.

Bramleys are poor for me this year - but the ones they do have are really big already - so maybe making up for it that way
Noticed my other apple tree - which was grown from a pip by previous owner, is loaded, so we shall have apples.

blueberries are few

our blackcurrant bushes are neglected and unnetted in the flower border - but went looking and picked a kilo.
so a bit of a hit and miss year

yummersetter

Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Posts: 3241
Location: Somerset

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 14 10:18 am Post subject:

Nothing better than your first crop from a tree you've planted, Tai Haku especially if it's something you haven't been able to buy.
My Gipsy cherry plums are ripening at different rates so I only have three ripe at any time. I like them though, they have the advantage of being the first home-picked fresh plum since autumn last year, a bit like Beauty of Bath apples. Maybe not the best when compared with main season apples but you're grateful for the taste of properly grown fruit again.

I just had what I'm sure was a Satsuma Japanese plum, the first from a tree in the orchard . . my plan says its Flavorking pluot but I think that died and was replaced. Delicious.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45704
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 14 11:37 am Post subject:
We harvested around 15kg of satsuma yesterday, biggest harvest of them ever. Proper delish

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46362
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 14 12:15 pm Post subject:
the blackberries are starting to redden and look better than i have ever seen them the pyo farms that sd visits each weekend seem to have better variety and quality than in the last few years it is interesting to follow fruit yields and might be useful for bee monitors and climatologists to do so

gythagirl

Joined: 18 Feb 2010
Posts: 1467
Location: Somerset

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 14 2:12 pm Post subject:

A bit mixed really. Blackcurrants the size of gooseberries, gooseberries the size of small plums! Redcurrants not stripped by the blackbirds for once. Pears/Apples good although the normally reliable Russet has no fruit whatsoever and looks diseased.

As for the 2 plum trees: the Victoria is fully laden but nearly every branch has broken right at the top - I'm heartbroken. The Early Rivers set vast quantities of fruit but they are starting to ripen without having grown very much (and we have been doing some thinning) and at least half the crop looks a bit manky - never happened before & no idea why...

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

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 14 2:19 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

We harvested around 15kg of satsuma yesterday, biggest harvest of them ever. Proper delish

Satsuma as in the little Christmas* orange things?

*Other times of year/religious festivals are available.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45704
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 14 3:42 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

tahir wrote:

We harvested around 15kg of satsuma yesterday, biggest harvest of them ever. Proper delish

Satsuma as in the little Christmas* orange things?

*Other times of year/religious festivals are available.

Nope, satsuma as in a variety of "Japanese" plum. One of the pointy types that come in from Spain, Israel and South Africa. This one has bright red flesh with skin that's a maroon colour when ripe.

No comparison to shop bought, they're ALWAYS picked too early

onemanband

Joined: 26 Dec 2010
Posts: 1473
Location: NCA90

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 14 3:49 pm Post subject:

I'm allready trying to give blackberries away.
My other fruits it's only their second year ...
Blueberries - laden
Cox's - good
cherries boysenberries and raspberries - poor
greengage - good but gone purple (not from sawfly them ones have fell off). The few I had last year stayed green.

gythagirl wrote:

Blackcurrants the size of gooseberries,

I've just had a pie my mum made from some of them

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 14 4:05 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

sean wrote:

tahir wrote:

We harvested around 15kg of satsuma yesterday, biggest harvest of them ever. Proper delish

Satsuma as in the little Christmas* orange things?

*Other times of year/religious festivals are available.

I thought it would be amazingly early for citrus.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45704
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 14 4:09 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

I thought it would be amazingly early for citrus.

Well, it'd also be a major achievement. All our trees are outside, I can't see any citrus surviving here

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

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 14 4:15 pm Post subject:
I dunno. They grow citrus in northern Israel, and they have proper hard frosts and snow in winter. or is it an average temp thing?

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