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Tidying up the raspberry plants for winter

October 5, 2010
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We’ve had a good summer of fruit from the raspberry canes but now they’re seven feet tall and starting to take over the patio. Unfortunately it’s still too early to cut them down.

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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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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 last tomatoes and raspberries

October 26, 2009
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Autumn is certainly here, going on the colour of the trees, so it’s time to start picking the last of our crops before it gets properly cold. Not that there’s an awful lot left. We do still have some tomatoes (below), but only really enough for a couple of topped bruchetta as a starter tonight [...]

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