Mark H
@neonbubble@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Snap from the garden this morning. We've now filled two 3.6kg tubs with blackberries and one 3.6kg tub with raspberries, and there is enough fruit still growing to double both those numbers. We've decided that we've got to start on the alcohol processing now to free up space so first up will be blackberry wine, brandy, and whiskey, then we'll look for a raspberry wine, then blackberry/raspberry blend. Maybe crumbles. Who knows?

#Gardening#Fruit#Garden

A portrait orientation view of half a dozen raspberries on a cane, some ripe, some almost there. Behind, there's another cane with large, dark green leaves and a few bits of red showing more raspberries. We're in a garden so behind we can see some soil then bamboo fencing along a wall separating this garden from the neighbours. The backs of a terrace of Edwardian era two-storey houses fills the very rear of the view and there's a little bit of sky visible, a patchy mix of pale blue sky and thin, puffy white clouds.
A portrait orientation view of half a dozen raspberries on a cane, some ripe, some almost there. Behind, there's another cane with large, dark green leaves and a few bits of red showing more raspberries. We're in a garden so behind we can see some soil then bamboo fencing along a wall separating this garden from the neighbours. The backs of a terrace of Edwardian era two-storey houses fills the very rear of the view and there's a little bit of sky visible, a patchy mix of pale blue sky and thin, puffy white clouds.
A portrait orientation view of half a dozen raspberries on a cane, some ripe, some almost there. Behind, there's another cane with large, dark green leaves and a few bits of red showing more raspberries. We're in a garden so behind we can see some soil then bamboo fencing along a wall separating this garden from the neighbours. The backs of a terrace of Edwardian era two-storey houses fills the very rear of the view and there's a little bit of sky visible, a patchy mix of pale blue sky and thin, puffy white clouds.
Joe Vilas
@jhv@triangletoot.party  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@autumn Can't even describe my neighbor's fig plant without sounding like Jay Mohr in the episode of "Action!" where his boss deliberately exposed himself to Mohr. All I can hope is you're familiar with the show & know the scene is *incredibly funny,* or is to me. Anyway: plant used to be like 3 sticks in the ground; now it's like a 2-car garage; I've never seen it with so many figs in my life.

Does anyone know if figs have mast years?
#figs #fruit #botany #science
@MichaelTBacon
Colin Purrington
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks  ·  activity timestamp last month

View of my berry box. On the right are newly-planted canes of Prime-Ark Freedom blackberry, red raspberry, black raspberry, tayberry, and boysenberry. On left, in the raised bed, are strawberries (Ozark Beauty, Merlan, Mignonette), and at the far end, Sunshine Blue blueberries. I call it Fruit Knox because the wire keeps the birds and squirrels out. #berries #rubus #blackberries #raspberries #boysenberries #tayberries #strawberries #garden #gardening #fruit