I want to make some new jams this year. We’re pretty much dab hands at marmalade, bramble jelly and, my absolute favourite, crab apple jelly, but I’d like to try some new berry fruit jams.
We have strawberries in the garden, and after replenishing our raspberry bed now have nine raspberry canes on the go, which together with the blackcurrant bush should make a nice mixed summer fruit jam. To round things off, then, we’ve planted a redcurrant bush in a large pot on the patio.
Actually, calling it a bush is a bit ambitious. It’s more of a stick at the moment. I’m hoping, though, that it’ll take well and provide us with a few berries by next summer. Fingers crossed.
That takes our fruit varieties to ten: strawberry, raspberry, apple, crab apple, cherry, apricot, blackcurrant, redcurrant, lingonberry and (although it’s actually a veg) rhubarb. We won’t get a huge amount from any single one, but combined they should do us quite well.
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