Autumn Raspberries And Blackberries

[melv16]

Is anyone else picking the above. What, with late runner beans and early autumn fruit, what's the world coming to? :-)

[alavahalf]

As I type I have my trusty kitchen assisstant sorting through Rasberries and blackberries as we are about to make more jam. Just add a few goosberries and a couple of apples...Lovely !
We dont talk about runner beans any more as I have managed to pick 14lb over the past 3 days. Suppose I will have to go and feed the neighbours again.

[Chipchopper]

I've noticed that the wild blackberries are swelling up nicely, after recent rains, over the last week or so.

I had 38 blueberries for breakfast. I must get around to freezing some for winter use but I can't stop eating them. ;-)

[EDDIE51]

Just had Stewed blackberries for dessert , picked them from bushes just a few yards from my house. They were really sweet hardly needed any sugar.
Not as good as a few years back when I made 5 jars of Blackberry jam from the same bushes. But as you say it is very variable this year, as I was picking them there were still flowers on other parts of the bush.

[woofgang]

blackberries here are still green

[Clanad]

Here in the western U.S., the month of August is the only time everyone locks their cars… if they didn't they find them full of zucchini (your courgettes) and tomatoes when they returned!

This has been an amazing year for our garden… Canned 25 quarts of green and yellow beans (I think they are similar to your "runner" beans, 20 quarts of beets (ya'll call them beet roots) and just now finishing up supplying all the neighbors with carrots… Tomatoes are coming on strong as well… We raised English cucumbers this year rather than the usual "Straight Eights" and they have been producing wonderfully for over a month now...

[EDDIE51]

How big is your garden Clanad? We don't all live in the wide open spaces of Wyoming . Our patch is 35ft by 75ft.

[Bathsheba]

my blackberries are still green.

[askyourgran]

My favourite time of year. Lovely blackberry and apple pies. Runner beans and cucumbers, tomatoes and beetroot. That is if our gardener/allotment friend keeps us in mind.

[DaisyNonna]

Loads of ripe blackberries in the Bournemouth area two weeks ago

[DaisyNonna]

Hoping to go sloe picking in a fortnight's time

[tonyav]

Loads of ripe wild Blackberries where I live.

[tonyav]

DaisyNonna
Hoping to go sloe picking in a fortnight's time


Ohhhh sloe gin, luvvely.

[DaisyNonna]

Exactly! Already bought the gin.

[tonyav]

Good gal, Daisy.

[Clanad]

Actually, eddie, ours is smaller than that... about 25 X 50 but seveal "raised areas" (not that that matters). Everything is fairly compact... for example, I plant onion sets in nd arnd the tomatoes and theyboth do very well. An older neighbor long expperienced in gardenening told me years ago that there are several plants that seem to helpful to one another (just as there are some that don't do all that well in proximity).

Our soil here is the fortunate culmination of eons of weathered lava eruptions, and a couple million years of being the floor of a semi-tropical inland sea...