Awful weather - typical Brits talk

wort

Middle wife you’ve definitely beaten mine ,still no flowers yet.🥹 Got a couple of hours in the garden this morning after some dom non. Tying in, trimming back no one but me would know it’s been done.

Farway the boysenberry looks lovely ,do they taste like blackberries? I’m missing something with the kitchen roll 🤔

It’s stayed breezy , but the suns back not as hot but normal summer hot.

Farway

MW I may have a fully ripe one in June, do I win the first ripe tomato contest😅No, that winner's cup went to Dusty awhile back [in his tunnel]

Farway those boysenberries look fab, I have a fence that's in sun half the day, 15 foot or so and always fancied digging up the grass and planting either autumn raspberries or boysenberries, any recommendations (although no digging yet as I have compensatory muscle weakness and pain 😔Very slanted & biased response, but I love my Merton Thornless blackberry, [also endorsed by Mrs D], nearly "proper" blackberry taste, prolific, no thorns, care free, fine raw or cooked, freezes as well

And also the Boysenberry, again no thorns, easy, never available in shops,[does not travel], large & juicy. Not tried but I bet ideal in pies, jam, fine raw.

You'd only need to dig up a square for either of them, enough to get roots in and allow for watering

You could have both, one at each end? 😈

Wort Farway the boysenberry looks lovely ,do they taste like blackberries? No, it's a unique sort of floral, sort of perfumed taste. Not overly sweet or sharp. If you like blackberries, raspberries etc you will like these

But like all berries, rain & damp weather ruins them. Both have good, reddish, large & prolific blossom for a great display in Spring

Both seem pest free to me, birds & squirrels no doubt will have them given a chance

Boysenberry roots very easy from tip layers, just looking at soil & it sprouts roots, good for gifting, but untended it could become a thicket after a year or so, but at least thorn less