Still picking raspberries !!

[kentish girl]

Just got back from the lottie with yet another picking of raspberries, I know that they are autumn bliss but i've never had them fruiting this late before.

Is this global warming

[Alison]

We're still picking too and are much further north than you - not a big crop but a few each day. Blame global warming.

[ugly gourd]

Ive got 5 greenstrawberries coming on and a few strawberry flowers even though I trimmed them back

[Mrs Dobby]

Still lots of strawbs, and they are still flowering! Rasps have slowed down a bit, but still enough fruit for a summer fruits mix, with a little ice cream for pud tonight!

[pigletwillie]

we are still picking a pound or two of autumn bliss every week from 3 rows. I managed enough this week to make 3 large raspberry cheesecakes for the freezer. In fact they have done so well that I have evicted a row of summers ones (they just dont punch their weight compared to autumn bliss) tp make way for 6 four year old Blueberries.

[Spuds up]

No rasps but they have started flowering again.

I grew some strawberries from seed at this year and the plants keep producing fruit. Too small for eating but a sign of the mild weather.

[pickledtink]

No joy with raspberries but still getting the odd strawberry. Sorry about the ozone layer obviously but I really like this warming effect in the garden. Plucked a lovely deep red pepper today. Grown outdoors from scratch and still harvesting. Late grown outdoor chillies ripening to red and yellow too.

[NEWTO THE PLOT]

on the subject of raspberries in my jungle (my new lottie) i found 6 raspberry canes which has three berries growing how do i know if they are autum or summer raspberries i found?

[Alison]

Guessing that they're autumn raspberries if they're fruiting now but the fool proof way to tell is to see if they fruit off this year's or last year's stem - autumn ones fruit off new growth and therefore should all be cut down to the ground each year (very easy) and summer ones friut on last year's growth so you only cut back the stems which have already fruited and leave the new ones for the following year.

[Earthbabe]

I don't have any raspberries and cut off any strawbs I get but I'm still picking courgettes.

[Alison]

Courgettes hit the compost heap a couple of weeks ago, still had flowers on but didn't think that they'd have chance to form fruits and I wanted to dig the bed over.

[crackapple]

i,m still picking outdoor cucumbers. brambles still available for jam!!

[Mrs Dobby]

Rsps still have plenty of ripe fruit on them, and strawbs still have lots of green fruit too, incredible weather for the end of october, we were both working in short sleeves today!

[Alison]

Had some fresh raspberries on my cereal this morning - can't beat it!

[Crazy Chickie]

You lucky, lucky things. I think I got about 15 strawberrys and 4 raspberrys this year, difficult to tell because the starlings fly round here in a great mob and are practiced theives We're so far north that the sun never really got the chance to ripen half the fruit either.