My Plum (Lizzie) has decided that one frosty night is enough and that it must be spring now. A few flowers are open and it looks like the rest are going to pop shortly too. Suspect I won't be knee-deep in plums next year!
Anyone else got any confused plants?
I don't think it's too unusual to get some blossom this time of year.
The new growth on my summer friting raspberries have produced fruit this month! The canes are only a foot high but each have many fruit on them. It has been lovely to have the raspberries but sadly i fear I wont have a good crop next year as Im pretty sure mine only give fruit on the new growth...I am assuming as this years new growth has already fruited they wont give me fruit next summer? I will trim them abit once they have stopped producing fruit & hope this tricks them into having another go next year. Oh & my srawberries have had 3 fruiting seasons this year when they should only have 1 so I expect they will be pretty rubbish next year too :( xjane
are you sure it is not a to season variety
Hi Plainleaf my raspberries are definitely summer fruiting varieties & they are well established as I inherited them with my plot. Ive had the lotty for 4 years & never had autumn fruit from them before...its very strange xjane
Looks also like the catkins are out on my cobnut too!
Don't prune the new raspberry canes..even if they have flowers on..it is quite possible they will still behave normally next year..
I have had summer-fruiting raspberries of one sort or another in my garden or down my allotment for most of the last 40 years, and I'm quite used to the occasional eccentric cane following its own individual impulse to produce an extra crop in the autumn (very nice thank you) What I have never seen before is every single cane in a two-year old row of Glen Ample go doolalley in this way. I don't have any problem in coping with my good fortune (unlike my blackbird which must be a slow learner) but I am a little apprehensive about the prospective crop next June.
Nothing particularly odd about summer-fruiting raspberries fruiting on this year's wood - that's exactly what autumn bliss were selected for. Stone fruit is a bit different, but I still wouldn't worry.