Perimeter Etiquette

[Ananke]

Thanks Aisles, I didn't know that, I thought they were all mine because I'm the one who gets the warning letter if they happen to breach onto the public pathway.

I took the advice of a few others on here and got down there early and I've managed a few pounds already this year so I'm happy

[zazen999]

Ananke - on my plot where the beans were likely to stray onto the path, I put short canes up about 3 ft apart, and then put 3 long canes [horizontally] woven in between them, thereby trapping the beans on my side of the path. It would be really simple to do that, and it can then be taken down when you feel ready to release the rest of your blackberries to anyone who wants them.

[Ananke]

Thanks Zazzen, I'm going give something like that a try next year. As you say, I can then open them up to the others, i'm not against sharing and this has made me feel quite selfish and I don't like it.

[Shadylane]

If they are overhanging the public type bit of the pathway then gleaning is acceptable as long as they are not going onto your plot. Same as if they are overhanging your neighbour's plot then they can glean only those Just as if they were overhanging into your garden.

Don't think this is quite right. If your neighbour's apple tree is overhanging into your garden then those apples still belong to your neighbour. I would think the same applies to your plot. If they're on your plot then they belong to you regardless of whether you can reach them from the path or not. And you shouldn't feel selfish, I doubt they would appreciate you helping yourself to their produce.

[Mikey]

I'm going to be training some step-over apples on my borders shortly, these will be trained along wires off the inside of a 3" round post. I hadn't thought about the prospect of neighbouring holders helping themselves. I'd have thought that if you trained them along some chicken wire or mesh then it would be clear who owns them, and it would be unlikely to happen again. If they are left to ramble then others may well think they are fair game.

[Two_Sheds]

I just found this while looking for summat else:

[Ananke]

Mickeywills, it doesn't seem to matter whether its clear to them or not. All of my plot neighbours know I grow my brambles to use the fruit, i've told them all, they still come pick them.

None of them will pick them while i'm there but I do catch lots of them when I arrive at different times......... who knows, maybe i'll get a bottle of bramble wine from one of them this/next year lol

[Gro-Bag]

This is an interesting thread. I've planted some raspberries around my perimeter. I suppose my general expectation was that if I could reach them from my plot they would be mine, but if they grew through the chicken wire fence that divides us and went into my neighbours plots (should they ever get taken on by anyone) so that I couldn't get them without walking on their plot then the neighbours would have them. I suppose this is the good thing about fences? But I'm beginning to wonder now if it was such a good idea to plant fruit along the perimeters. Especially the ones by the path - which I would expect to be mine, hmmm...and I didn't think about htem growing taller than the fences, and leaning a little...

BTW - a net over the blackcurrants that I bought and planted in an agreed patch in a communal garden seems to work, whether it was birds or neighbours that totally cleaned out my first decent crop. But a neighbour recently remarked on their plans for jam making with 'the' (my) rasps next year! (Guess where the new canes from them have gone...)

[zazen999]

But a neighbour recently remarked on their plans for jam making with 'the' (my) rasps next year! (Guess where the new canes from them have gone...)

That's good news, as I'll be selling them in punnets next summer; what weight are you looking for and I'll make sure you can have them at cost price?

[Gro-Bag]

Hehehe... : - D