Many thanks for comments over the last couple of days - apologies for not replying - I had to do a bit of Nanna duty.
On Sunday I checked for more figs and yes, two more were ready and then a small splash of orange caught my eye high up above the fence between me and next door neighbour so I went for a closer look and yes,
it was a passion fruit on the climber. I mentioned this passion flower plant a week or so ago when the first lovely flower appeared and now there's a fruit - just one - I'm not tempted to get a step ladder out to reach it even if it is edible.
But a much more edible find was a few raspberries right on the tips of the canes that were here when I moved in. I still can't work out exactly what variety they are as some fruited back in early summer and the canes are all squashed together in a muddle in the narrow border.
I have been advised to have no more than two servings of fruit per day. Both my dentist and GP have said this to me. However, my GP has also said that I should be aiming for five to seven servings of vegetables. I don't know if the passion fruit is edible or nor. Raspberries look beautifully firm.
ReplyDeleteThe raspberries were a surprise treat - I just love fresh fruit and eat as much as possible . That's the thing I miss most from the smallholding days when we had all sorts
DeleteYou can scoop out the seeds as a garnish. But it's hardly worth the effort imho!
ReplyDeleteEspecially as I'd need a stepladder to reach it!
DeleteHow lovely to have a passion fruit.
ReplyDeleteWe have oodles of plums and greengages and apples which make up for the disappointing shortfall in everything else.
I so miss having a plum tree. Perhaps one day my new apples will give me some fruit
DeleteDelicious! The autumn raspberries are coming thick and fast now. I started with two Joan J canes but we all know how autumn raspberries spread. Like you I am picking one or two ripe figs from my potted tree every day. My fig tree was my mum’s and I pruned it back really hard in 2013 to get it in the back of the car and again in 2018 to move it here. Nowadays it is in a big glazed pot outside the garden room not far from a tap and gets all the sun. Next to it is a potted calamondin tree which will need a good cut back before I dare to lift it back into the garden room for winter. I haven’t bought any fruit for weeks now as we’ve plenty of apples and blackberries (best year ever for blackberries, probably for the same reason the raspberries are doing so well) as well as delicious wild plums growing nearby. Sarah in Sussex
ReplyDeleteI think the previous owners must have bought a small pack of mixed raspberry canes and shoved them in the narrow border. It's impossible to see what's what at the base so I can't prune them properly for fruiting.
DeleteOur raspberries and blackberries are huge this year, all that rain has made a difference.
ReplyDeleteI found a few blackberries on the other side of the churchyard but we really haven't had as much rain as many places so they are not doing well.
DeleteHave you planted Autumn Raspberries Sue? After a wet July and August our blackberries are doing well and I hope to find some on a walk today.
ReplyDeleteRight - I'm going to pick your brains. What greenhouse did you go for at your new home, and did you go for glass or polycarbonate please? I've just had a greenhouse catalogue arrived and even the tiniest lean-to one 4ft long to go up against a wall is over £800! They must be joking.
Mine is glass and it's quite big. I can't remember what make it is but it wasn't cheap! As I was downsizing I had enough spare to afford it.
DeleteI went to a garden centre that has them on show and bought via them
Thanks Sue. I shall see what I can find. Ones I can afford on t'internet seem to all be made in China and come with unintelligible instructions!
DeleteI thought you might like to know this. A friend of mine has just shared on Facebook that she thinks it's a bumper year for figs. last year she had one ripe fig this year. to date, she's got 76. quite some haul. I hope she likes figs.
ReplyDeleteIt will be years before I get that many as it's only been in situ for 2 years after being just a 18 inch tall 'stick'
DeleteI've had four little fingernail sized strawberries this month from a plant outside my front door that grew all on it's own. They were quite tasty! Lesley
ReplyDeleteThat's an unexpected treat!
DeleteYour fig tree seems to be gifting you regularly with fruit. I love figs too. Figs with a bit of cheese is also a favorite.
ReplyDeleteI love raspberries which I find much tastier than strawberries which sometimes give me a rash.we’ve must had some sliced peaches and Greek yoghurt for dessert and they were delicious.Catriona
ReplyDeleteI love dates a good combination.
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I have begun juicing again. You can get quite a bit of fruit and vegetables into a glass. I have half a cucumber, two stalks of celery, a couple handfuls of baby carrots and two small apples every day for lunch.
ReplyDeleteI love getting little bits of fruit and vegetables at a time, it's so much easier than dealing with a glut or a huge harvest isn't it. :-)
ReplyDeleteI have the three Shirley Goode BBC books and along with the Tightwad Gazette books, they have been my go to since the 1980's for frugal recipes and lifestyle choices. I lived in the UK back then, now in the USA and I still refer to them. I loved her TV program. I once made Shirley's Elderflower Champagne, it was good but oh so sweet.
ReplyDeleteI followed her blog until she died and was sad but her legacy was many good memories. I wrote by snail mail to her once and she replied. Very distinctive lovely handwriting I recall.
Thanks for your blog, yours is the first one I read each day.
Best wishes Pam in Texas.x
Sorry I commented on the subject of your next post, using my phone and fat fingers is not always good. Pam in Texas. X
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