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impact5 | 10:09 Thu 25th Oct 2012 | Gardening
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there are very few sloe berries on trees this year anyone else noticed any reasons
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Yes. I always go to a place where it's usually laden with them. Not just a few this year- none at all.
Err.................. the weather?
Viz, few pollinating insects at flower time, little sunshine to ripen fruit, too much rain causing what fruit there is to go mushy.
It is not only true of sloes, but of most fruits from apples to strawberries.
It seems to be most crops; I was speaking to a farm worker in the Scottish Borders at the weekend, and he said the apples are about 10% of the usual crop, and they haven't been able to gather in potatoes.
The reason for both is the lengthy spells of rain, a) preventing bees flying and pollinating, and b) farm machinery can't move along soggy ground.
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thanks all i suspected it was weather no sloe gin this year sob sob sob
Fewer than usual here (north Essex) but still enough for both sloe gin & vodka :-)
It's exactly the same with our damson trees - not a single damson, and yet last year I had a glut.

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