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Sunday, 3 July 2022

Evening walk

crab apples... surprisingly there doesn't seem to have been a June drop...I think they may be still small as we haven't had that much rainfall...

And high up in the trees are...

Pears...it will be a short window when they will be just right to juice...fingers crossed!!


 And we could just see Arran. Today we have had gusty winds again...we had planned a bike ride, but wind and showers again wrote that off.

After our walk I started harvesting gooseberries, black and red currants and Alpine strawberries... Without netting the birds would have already cleared the lot!!

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6 comments:

  1. Joanne Noragon4 July 2022 at 00:41

    A nice start to harvesting.

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  2. Zhoen4 July 2022 at 02:00

    Summer fruit to come.

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  3. The Weaver of Grass4 July 2022 at 14:18

    Birds don't miss a trick where berries are concerned. One day they areripe - the next day gone!

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  4. kjsutcliffe4 July 2022 at 20:57

    We are gently (grrrr) competing with the birds but we don't net, we use a variety of 'scary things' which on the whole do the trick. The blackbirds are friendly enough to know we don't mean to be horrible so ignore all measures of 'anti-bird - cheeky beggers!! haha

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  5. gz5 July 2022 at 09:20

    Hawthorne I would love to be able to not net.. however before I did, I lost the lot...
    I would like to know which birds eat gooseberry sawfly caterpillars though..if it is blue tits, sadly they don't frequent our garden.

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  6. Amy6 July 2022 at 03:52

    you're gonna be busy canning and pickling fruit come Autumn but I cant think of anything nicer.

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