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Picking the cherries and beans

July 7, 2010
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Our beans are cracking on at quite a pace, and tonight we picked and ate the first fruits of our labours. It’s a shame we can’t say the same for our cherries.

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We’re enjoying a garden fruit glut

July 2, 2010
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Our strawberry patch is having its best year ever, delivering more strawberries every day than we can possibly hope to eat. And now our raspberries are starting to fruit, too.

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Something is eating our strawberries

June 22, 2010
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A pest in the strawberry patch is eating our fruits almost as quickly as we can pick them. The culprit looks like it might be woodlice, but until we can be sure we’re not sure how to fight back.

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Our first rhubarb of the year

June 19, 2010
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Our rhubarb is still maturing very slowly, as it’s only its first year in the garden. With that in mind, the offer of some dead cheap rhubarb sticks on the market was just too good to pass up.

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They may still be green, but they’re strawberries

June 5, 2010
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With fruit it’s often best to wait and see. Bide your time, wait a year or two and you’ll be rewarded by the kind of crop we’re expecting from our strawberries this year.

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A surprise showing from the ‘dead’ rhubarb

May 20, 2010
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A rhubarb root that we thought had died in the ground seems to have found a new lease of life and is rather unexpectedly starting to shoot. Better late than never.

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Three years of raspberry growth

May 6, 2010
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We didn’t really believe that raspberry canes would grow as quickly as they do, but three years after planting our first ones they look set to take over the plot.

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The rhubarb is shooting

March 30, 2010
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The first of our rhubarb roots has started to show signs of shooting. We’re not going to force it this year, but instead let it get itself established so that by next year we should be harvesting enough fruit for a few summer crumbles.

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We’ve planted a redcurrant bush

February 16, 2010
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After planting a redcurrant bush we have counted up the different fruits we are growing and found that we are at ten. Not bad going for a very small plot. It should make for some tasty jams over the next few years.

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Planting a lingonberry plant

February 15, 2010
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We are growing our own lingonberry plant so that we can use the cranberry-like fruits in pies and cakes. Unfortunately our plant is very small, so it may take a while to mature.

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