Soft fruit harvests - How has yours been?

ruffmeister

Hi there peeps,

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

Here is a picture of our wonderful harvest Soft Fruits

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

troll35

What lovely fruit and veg.
Here ooop north we must be several weeks (or months;) ) behind you. I've plenty of fruit growing but none ready. Eventually I will have lots of raspberries, strawberries and blackcurrants plus 6 gooseberries off my new and as yet small gooseberry bush. Ah well something to lok forward to.

jrrowleyws

Had about 4-5 carrier bag fulls of gooseberries, they are doing very well this year and ive still got more to pick!

Plum and apple trees are fully laden but my carrots dont seem to be doing much:rolleyes:

flashman_62

Growing strawberries in a wooden barrel and last weekend put some shredded newspaper under the fruit to prevent rotting. Whilst putting the paper in i noticed two almost ripe strawberries but they both had been eaten - perfect circular holes :mad:. My gfd reckons damaged caused by slugs and I should have used straw instead as the slugs don't like it

Lord_Gardener

We've also been having loads of Gooseberries and Strawberries!

nodwah

Ate my first strawbeery today - lovely- but so did a squirrel GGGGRRRRR

ruffmeister

squirrels and strawberries hmmm didnt know they liked them

mjr600

My fruit has been excellent, first crop of strawberries are almost eaten, second crop of a variety called Maxim are blinkin huge http://www.bakker.co.uk/Catalog/Productdetail.aspx?parentcategoryname=16&selectedcategoryname=25&productid=1554&R=1554-011
thanks to all the rain we have had.

Maxim is a variey I recommend, even a poor crop produces large fruit by default, they are disease free and very tasty.

Raspberries are just starting to go red, blackberries haven't fruited yet and my ancient cooking apple tree has the largest crop of apples I have ever seen.

It is destined to be a great year for fruit.

nodwah

ruffmeister wrote: »

squirrels and strawberries hmmm didnt know they liked them

Me neither, but it def wasn't birds or slugs and small humans denied it - they wouldn't have left half anyway so it was either fox or squirrel!

weiser

it does seem like a good year for strawberries i have opal and perfection growing really well

Plum_Pie

I bought a strawb seedling, it's only just getting buds!

My mum has a well established patch and says that she and my dad have to eat some every day just to keep the crop down. (She's made buckets of strawb ice cream too!)