Saturday 4th July was the second "make do and mend" day at the Rugby Club, I helped install a drain to stop the patio flooding the clubhouse via the fire door during heavy rain, then watched the Lions make up for their first two dismal performances against South Africa.
Sunday 5th July I weeded all of Plot 17, dug potatoes for tea and picked; mangetout sugarsnap peas, cuccumbers, lettuces, purple french beans and raspberries.
I got Chris & Alison to help themselves to all the ones down by the coldframe, then got Terry & Sue to pick the uncovered row up on the fruit terrace, that left me just the four netted rows and they yielded 16lb.
Mary was asking about some un-picked fruit on a couple of plots, so I offered her my redcurrents and some gooseberries, she left with a mixing bowl of each and the promise to me of a couple of jars of jelly and jam.The redcurrents looked like polished jewels lurking in the bushes.
This is how the onions and shallots looked after I had finished.
Saturday 11th July I spent two hours picking fruit.
Then I uncovered some of the brassicas to weed them, nice easy job as the soil hasn't set hard, although there were some impressive cracks.
Then I noticed that under the next set of protection my calabrese was somewhat more advanced than I had thought.
Take a look at these two.
I harvested about fifteen of these, gave one to John who couldn't quite believe his eyes, three to Bob & Tracey, two for Sunday dinner and ten for the freezer. Left some smaller ones to bulk up a bit and it looks like there might be sideshoots.Harvested half a carrier bag of purple french beans, some for Sunday dinner the rest went in the freezer.
Dug two potato plants, which gave some small spuds for my tea, everyone else had already eaten, with a good amount for Sunday dinner.
Managed to lure Mary back to pick more redcurrents and gooseberries, another mixing bowl of each, amazing how laden the two bushes of each are this year.
4 comments:
Hello Peter, just wandered over via Hazel at the Hill - wow, that's some harvest you've got going.
No such thing as too many raspberries {grin}, but you do seem to have a bit of a glut, don't you? Now, if I could swap some of the conifer brush and rubbish at Bag End for a bit of your surplus harvest {splutter!}
I've notices how much fruit has been around this year but I have taken the opportunity to make lots of smoothies/cheesecakes/ice-creams and jams with the kids...the best thing is they eat it once they've made it themselves!!!
Love your blog by the way!!
If you feel the need then give those raspberries to me.. :-)... my raspberry canes are still getting established so not much fruit on them for me I'm afraid but everyone has had plenty of fruit,,,it really seems to have been the year for it.
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