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Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15936

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 13 8:37 am Post subject: Soft fruit foraging
Managed to pick some wild raspberries in our wood yesterday. Some also owe a bit to birds dropping seed as they are yellow, but that patch doesn't seem to be spreading. From the number of butterflies and bees on the bramble flower, there should be plenty of blackberries too.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 13 8:52 am Post subject:
I have to say, I think its going to be a good year for soft fruit. The blackberries around here are abundant and the raspberries in our garden are too. They don't normally start giving a good yield until September.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9858
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 13 2:31 pm Post subject:
we've abandoned the raspberries now as a lot of the fruit is rotting in the warm/wet weather and the wasps are in - been a great year for them and we have a raspberry mountain in the freezer some yellow raspberries are growing wild near here - and are so sweet and lovely I am thinking of getting some of them too

onemanband

Joined: 26 Dec 2010
Posts: 1473
Location: NCA90

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 13 4:15 pm Post subject:

sgt.colon wrote:

I have to say, I think its going to be a good year for soft fruit. The blackberries ......

Not half.
When I cleared my building plot one corner was overgrown with blackberries. I left a 20 foot long, 4 foot wide, 8 foot high, wall of blackberries to screen off my caravan area.
What you see in picture is a fraction of my crop ! Both sides and the top are laden.

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 13 4:29 pm Post subject:
No raspberries for us yet ours are autumn fruiting,but the redcurrants/blackcurrants are amazing.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 13 7:33 pm Post subject:
Fabulous fruit year here too - just starting to pick from my thornless blackberry and they look to exceed anything from previous years. One of my blackcurrant bushes was so laden all the branches dipped were weighted down to ground level!

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9858
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 13 8:11 pm Post subject:

Green Rosie wrote:

Fabulous fruit year here too - just starting to pick from my thornless blackberry and they look to exceed anything from previous years. One of my blackcurrant bushes was so laden all the branches dipped were weighted down to ground level!

oh yes, we had the same - stunning quantities this year

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46169
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Aug 06, 13 10:48 am Post subject:
my vine pruned blackberry has lots of nice bunches this year.hooves crossed they will get ripe

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Wed Aug 07, 13 9:52 am Post subject:
Our rasps firstly didnt get enough water and then the few fruits dried up - poor, but looks good for brambles.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15936

Posted: Thu Aug 08, 13 5:53 am Post subject:
I think the rain came at about the right time for the raspberries. The blackberries look good too.

catbaffler

Joined: 31 Mar 2009
Posts: 937
Location: Barry

Posted: Fri Aug 09, 13 6:12 am Post subject: Where are all the sloes?
I went for a walk yesterday to check out foraging potential in my favourite place for blackberries, crab apples, sloes and wild plums. There were plenty of unripe blackberries and ripening apples but practically no sloes or plums at all. Has anyone else noticed this?

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15936

Posted: Fri Aug 09, 13 6:16 am Post subject:
I have seen a good crop of sloes in some places, but nothing in others. I haven't seen any mirabelles obvious at the moment; the best one round here looked completely fruitless, which is sad. Must have been the cold spring. Either the flowers got frosted or there weren't enough insects around to pollinate them.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35057
Location: Devon

Posted: Fri Aug 09, 13 6:54 am Post subject:
My long hedge which is usually loaded has not one single bullace. Sloes are patchy.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Fri Aug 09, 13 7:21 am Post subject:
I've only found one shrub with sloes and we have no plums or damsons this year.

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Fri Aug 09, 13 8:44 am Post subject:

Nicky Colour it green wrote:

we've abandoned the raspberries now as a lot of the fruit is rotting in the warm/wet weather and the wasps are in - been a great year for them and we have a raspberry mountain in the freezer

some yellow raspberries are growing wild near here - and are so sweet and lovely I am thinking of getting some of them too

Yellow raspberries are fabulous - the other advantage, aside from the taste, is that the birds seem to ignore them. I think the colour confuses them - they don't think they are ripe. I think our variety is All Gold. It spreads like mad. I keep on having to dig sections out!

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