How are the veggies coming along?

[rapalaman]

Damsons and bramleys doing ok this year - another 7-10 days and I reckon I’ll be making 25 - 40lb of damson jam.

Not a single fig this year, redcurrants poor, eating apples ok, few raspberries, courgettes and small yellow cucumbers cropping well. Not much time to do anything else

Edited July 29 by rapalaman

[sime42]

1 hour ago, rapalaman said:

Damsons and bramleys doing ok this year - another 7-10 days and I reckon I’ll be making 25 - 40lb of damson jam.

Not a single fig this year, redcurrants poor, eating apples ok, few raspberries, courgettes and small yellow cucumbers cropping well. Not much time to do anything else

 

 

Those Damsons look superb.

 

Have you noticed the apples being earlier than normal this year? Ours are way ahead I'm sure. If they continue to grow at this rate they'll be football sized by autumn.

 

It was a good year for Gooseberries here, they've just finished. And Boysenberries. Blueberries are off the scale. We're picking a bowl like this every few days now. All from just three plants. Cucumbers, Toms and Chillies are just starting to kick on in the greenhouses. No Bitter Gourds as yet though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

All the berries must have loved the wet first half of the year.

 

 

 

 

[Darrin Turnbull]

Them damsons are looking clean ( no insects )

got me thinking of pflumenkuchen mit sahne.

 

[peds]

On 29/07/2024 at 22:55, sime42 said:

 

 

 

All the berries must have loved the wet first half of the year.

 

Every cloud has a silver lining, and rain clouds are lined with bilberries!

 

 

 

Dog walks take much, much longer during berry season.

 

Bonus wildflower photo, may not be edible:

 

 

[rapalaman]

9 hours ago, Darrin Turnbull said:

Them damsons are looking clean ( no insects )

got me thinking of pflumenkuchen mit sahne.

 

Sehr lecker 👍

[farmer rod]

Ive sussed out why I am having no luck with growing carrots , they are not due till next year

 

 

 

Edited August 5 by farmer rod

[rapalaman]

On 29/07/2024 at 21:44, rapalaman said:

Damsons and bramleys doing ok this year - another 7-10 days and I reckon I’ll be making 25 - 40lb of damson jam.

Not a single fig this year, redcurrants poor, eating apples ok, few raspberries, courgettes and small yellow cucumbers cropping well. Not much time to do anything else

Three pans of damson jam on the go this evening. Made 9lbs last week which has come out lovely - set better than last years so the pectin content obviously varies naturally.

Should get about 30 jars out of this lot today 👍

[scbk]

Found camel toe in the polytunnel

[sime42]

54 minutes ago, scbk said:

Found camel toe in the polytunnel

 

Delightful. That beats the normal arse shaped tomatoes and suchlike.

[sime42]

 

Crap sweet corn.

 

 

Good greens.