I pruned part of our bramble really hard last winter. I have been trying to get husband to help me get a frame up so that I can train some of the best roots, but we have had the post sockets for at least 2 years now, and no joy. I suppose I could go and get some postcrete myself and do it all, but as he is talking of getting son to help, I might find it rather too heavy work on my own. At least I can now get into the tangle and have two discrete bushes to pick from.
sgt.colon
Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 7380 Location: Just south of north.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 20 8:49 am Post subject:
We have had plenty of blackberries off the ones that are going on my part of the allotment. Big and very sweet. They do get the sun all day though.
Went blackberrying in the woods yesterday and got a good punnet full. Had some with cream yesterday evening and will use some more for a crumble with some apple this evening. Any over go into the freezer along with any more I can get in the garden. They are coming along again now as the weather has improved a bit.
I don't bother weighing mine. I have made a couple of gallons of wine and some jam from the stuff from last year. This years crop have given us plenty to eat with cream or ice cream and a good number of crumbles, with or without apple, and I have a lot frozen, so plenty in store again.
we had a lot of grade 1+ at the start of the season
most of the crop has been G1 and G2+
a good year for quality and quantity, the former i suspect weather , the latter pruning for fruit and a bloom boost feed at the right time.
sgt.colon
Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 7380 Location: Just south of north.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 20 9:41 am Post subject:
We have lots of green ones still on the bush, which I'm hoping will turn, as they look pretty good, especially for more blackberry crumble, with double cream. MMmmmmmmmm.
gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8896 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 20 10:50 am Post subject:
Picked another couple of marg. boxes of blackberries yesterday, and elderberries too. It was good to catch a sunny day, and there is a fair amount not quite ripe, but much is spoiling on the bramble with all the wet weather.
Yes, we lost a lot over the last week or two with the wet. Good thing is the seeds will drop and then the mice will have them for winter stores. Downside is we don't get the blackberries and the uneaten ones will end up as seedlings. I think there are enough blackberries in my world without more.
Managed to get a handful of wild raspberries from the woods yesterday, and that was just along a short bit of track near our 'yard'. I have blackberries starting in the garden, so had bought strawberries (fairly local), blackberries and raspberries with cream yesterday evening.
sgt.colon
Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 7380 Location: Just south of north.
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 23 12:01 pm Post subject:
Blackberries are just starting to ripen up this way. It will be interesting to see what sort of harvest there will be this year.
Nicky cigreen
Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 9867 Location: Devon, uk
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 23 12:19 pm Post subject:
lots of ripe ones here - am mostly leaving for the birds - will pick just enough for blackberry and apple crumbles through the year.
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