They have been steadily ripening all month and I get a good-sized bowl full every single day.
If you check out the price of raspberries in the supermarket I hope you'll agree they are well worth the effort.. Hubby worked out July must have yielded about £60 worth at the price they sell per punnet on our market - and ours are organic so that's an undervaluation!
The other fruit I am have been harvesting this month is redcurrants. I bought a single bush a good few years ago and so far it produces more fruit each year. There's a little work in pruning and just a bit of feeding and watering but apart from that it has been trouble free. I have learned to pick them when they are really dark red or they are very tart indeed. But once really ripe they mix in deliciously with the raspberries.
Normally in July I would have salad crops such as lettuce to harvest. Unfortunately I had a little mishap. My veg beds are surrounded by 1 foot high fencing to keep our beloved guinea pig out. She's allowed the run of the rest of the garden. Sadly, after a weeding session I left a small gap in the barrier. Cue the case of the vanishing lettuces - the whole lot, which were young plants, gone - and one very smug looking, and rather rotund, guinea pig. I have sown more but they are only tiny right now - will only get a late crop this year.
So, I have been buying those trays of growing lettuce that you can sit on the kitchen window-sill and cut from. Only, instead of putting the remains in the compost bin, when I have cut all I can, I have started planting the remains in the garden and watering and feeding along with the rest of the crops. Give it a week or so and hey presto it has grown back ready to cut again. I have cut this one four times now and it's still growing back again.
Mmm, I love raspberries :D You have a lovely little space for growing things!
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DeleteOh I have garden envy right now! Growing my own is something I am hoping to do more. This year I was given a tomato plant and chilli plant and I haven't killed them yet. Will consider raspberries next!
ReplyDeleteRaspberries are really very easy and cost effective. I have some tomatoes but never grown chillies.
DeleteI wish I had a garden full of fruit and veg.
ReplyDeleteSo nice to have a garden to plant fruits and vegetables..
ReplyDeleteYou can't beat home grown fruit and veg. Our Japanese wineberry plant has just started fruiting and I am so excited.
ReplyDeleteOh, how fabulous, wineberries are lovely.
DeleteI love home grown fruits, especially raspberries and blackberries. Always reminds me of being a child again. I love guinea pigs, such adorable little creatures, shame about the lettuce but at least it was eaten by a cute face :)
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I love all those things too. And the guinea pig made me chuckle so much, naughty girl lol.
DeleteOh your berries look amazing :-)
ReplyDeleteThey were delicious, nearly all gone now unfortunately.
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