Topic: at last good stuff is coming...

[qahtan]

Local strawberry's $5.50 a heaping quart, from the nursery's, local asparagus was $1,98 pound, from the grower and local tomatoes, $3.49 for 3 pound, also from the nursery, pretty good I thought, plus some nice tomatoes plants at $2.50 each, and some Basil plants.

$1.61 == 1 pound.  temperature 27c. qahtan

[Ninnyscrops.]

Our's will be a coming soon Qahtan   :)

Ninnys x

[Digeroo]

Strawberries just starting to swell.   We can buy strawberries flown in from Egypt and then Spain all winter mostly totally tasteless.  So waiting for my own with great anticipation.

[Ellen K]

Polytunnel English strawberries (not too bad) and cherry tomatoes (Piccolo but not very nice) available here now.  Prices OK but more of a promise of things to come.

Time to put the nets on our fruit guys.

[qahtan]

we have a few apricots the size of broad beans but I don't thing any plums, after that masses of blossom we had. but loads of blackcurrants coming. qahtan

[antipodes]

I had my first baby spuds this week (very early) and if it stops raining, the first strawberries will be ready too. Plenty of gooseberries on the bush but only tiny yet, like currants. Raspberries are in flower though so berries soon.

[qahtan]

 goose berrys just don't want to grow here, in Ontario.
 Do you grow those great big golden goose berry's. yummy.
 I think they were called golden knobs, or maybe that was just my mums name for them. haven't had them in 45 years thats how long we have lived in Canada, don't get many loganberry's either, we are lucky if we get 20 berrys a season.  qahtan

[Flighty]

An interesting topic.

I can't find a Golden thingy* gooseberry but there is an apple  -
http://www.bernwodefruittrees.co.uk/descriptions/apple20.htm (scroll down to find this particular variety).

*Ha...I typed in the word but this is how it shows!

[antipodes]

goose berrys just don't want to grow here, in Ontario.
 Do you grow those great big golden goose berry's. yummy.

I had never seen gooseberries till coming to France. They don't have them in Australia. Actually mine are a red variety (it's not actually what I bought, it was meant to be a green/white/red package!) But they are very sweet when ripe and they give nice big berries if the spiky bits don't get you! They start off green but go dark wine red when ripe. I just made some jam with the last frozen ones from last year and the new rhubarb. Very tasty.

[qahtan]

thanks Mike....... Goodness knows where my mum got the name from, :-\

 Some of those apples sound good...
I cooked the first of our Rhubarb, not my favourite fruits, with a few strawberrys, and put it in the freezer. qahtan