Yippee! Our blackcurrants are curranting and our strawberries are berrying. The raspberries have done their first attempt at fruit this year and it was a great one. The new canes are already starting to grow flowers in order to provide our second crop of the year in September, roughly.
Here are a few photos to tempt you..
Looking like a vine of tempting fruit. The blackcurrants seem to stay quite sour and many strange and crazy faces have been pulled while trying them out. They have a wonderful flavour but I think they might be better blended into a fruit juice or piled into a tart (pie), yum.
The raspberries are very succulent and are wonderful on their own. They would probably be lovely with some cream but we are always too eager just to eat them immediately rather than planning a particular dish with them. Maybe next time.
These little fellas always seem luminous when photographed. They are really bright red and I've decided that the best time to pick them is when there is still a little white left on them. If you turned this guy around you'd see that the other side was white. When they go a deeper red they can taste a bit "off". They go past their best quite quickly, so pick them early.
Our blueberries have fallen off by the way, boohoo, but there is still hope for the physalis..yay.
Hiya!
Grow your own magazine forums (http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk) are having a bit of a focus on container gardening at the moment - you may want to check them out.
The forums are quite interesting.
Posted by: fwuffydragon | 03 October 2008 at 12:12