Wonderful Soft Fruit Harvest!!!!!!

[giantseye]

I have finally got something to ripen :o, and the birds & mice were beaten this time ;D :D ;)

I have picked 6 strawbwerries, 10 gorgeous raspberries(only 4 got home), and 6 wonderful tasting tayberries.

I've only had my lottie since April, but I am hooked good and proper, and now I can see where all the hard work went.

Happy tasting ;D ;D ;D

[giantseye]

[Piglottie]

Well done Giantseye!  Gives me hope being a new plot owner (got plot end of May).  No fruit in yet but hopefully next year.   :)

[Mrs Ava]

Hoorah for soft fruit!  The veggies are great and wonderful, but the berries are heavenly, and when the mice have eaten your peas, the birds and blackfly have decimated your broadbeans, and the ground is so dry your beetroot refuse to germinate, you can pick a ripe, tender, sweet, perfect raspberry, and for that moment, all is perfect in the world!

Congratulations giantseye.  I promise, it keeps getting better!

[ina]

So you got a taste and got hooked, not a bad thing to be hooked on I'd say.

[Icyberjunkie]

Great feeling isn't it Giantseye.  Got mine about the same time and have reched about the same stage - have just finished making a summer pudding with the children.  Mind you I think the carrots did it for me - they actually tasted of something!

happy harvesting,  Iain

[Anne Robertson]

Yesterday I made raspberry jam with my excess berries.
Already been through half a jar on home made scones ;D

[giantseye]

Thanks for all your replies :D ;)

Ani, I will have a load more raspberries ripening over the next few weeks, so I am going to try and make some jam ;D

I haven't done very well this year with veggies, so the soft fruit has been a bonus.

The flavours great and the fruit looks good.  I love this organic gardening :D

[busy_lizzie]

So far I am having my best year ever with soft fruit.  Strawberries were late in ripening but they are coming thick and fast now. My raspberries are starting to ripen as are the redcurrants and blackcurrants, and it looks like a bumper crop.  Gooseberries now reddening too.  Glad you have experienced the fantastic taste of homegrown berries GE. It does spur you on when you can taste the difference between homgrown stuff and supermarket stuff.  :) busy_lizzie 

[Marianne]

Well done Giantseye  :D 

It's a lovely feeling when you pick the fruit and veg of your hard labour, which has been grown away from pesticides and nasty other chemicals.  The feeling of pride and happiness is great and encourages you to grow even more. 

I am new to kitchen gardening too and so far have grown radishes, parsley, lettuces, coriander and broad beans.  I will have a go at fruit next season (when I can find somewhere to plant them)!  ;D
So well done !  ;D ;D

[legless]

i can't believe my strawberries this year - perhaps they heard me saying that i was going to dig them up if they didn't do much! i haven't netted them because i thought they wouldn't come to much and they are much better - i presume the birds etc are eating the slugs that ate last years crop.

[Debs]

Wonder if the pigeons on our site have given up the strawberry fight,

or, more likely, lulling us into false sense of security...

Mine are the same! I haven't netted them and last time I looked they

were rather large.

Of course now i've said it!!

I shall go tomorrow and find stalks where there once were fruits  ;D