Disappointing raspberries

[GardenFaery]

Netted and ready to pick at end of week cant tell you more till tasted them

[Tripmeup]

Mixed so far...some have been very tasty and some relatively tasteless..all from the same line of canes....can't blame the slugs for that I suppose...

[Kestrel]

Thanks Kestrel! I've picked a dish full today and they'll be fine with tomorrow's breakfast. Just a few days of sunshine, that's all they need

Glad you are getting some, VC.

[veggiechicken]

Picked a large bowlful yesterday and the same of loganberries. Cooked both together before the razzers went mouldy Delicious

[Kestrel]

Finest taste of all the summer fruit if you ask me (you didn't, but I'm going to tel you anyway...) My top 5 would be
1. Raspberries
2. Blackcurrants
3. Cherries (do tree fruits count?)
4. Redcurrants
5. Gooseberries

[veggiechicken]

No you didn't but I'm happy to listen!
1. Raspberries,
2. Strawberries
3. Cherries
4. Loganberries
5. Blackcurrants

[BUFFS]

our berries are just about to start to colour up,so as we have not had as much rain as some,we should still have some flavour in them as the canes are really loaded with fruit,just wish we could get some sunshine for a change ,but when you see what some people are enduring, with all the floods ,im not going to fret too much,just fingers crossed for next year...

[CaroltheCarrot]

Just picked my first ripe ones of the year. They were worth getting wet for

[GardenFaery]

raspberries are surprisingly lovely considering all the rain up here, but mine have some shelter from trees and bushes surrounding them. Today was a beautifully hot, sunny, Summer's day so picked a few for me and loads more coming for colleagues at work

[hamsterqueen]

no raspberries at all, but Fantastic strawberries, 2 kilos so far and still loads to come.

[Graham K]

Raspberries; (summer) crap and rotting on the bush. Fingers crossed for the autumns.

Loganberry; crap destroyed "overnight" by black fly.

Pears; non existent all fell off in April when the weather went screwy the first time.

Plums; see pears.

Apples; just didn't happen, two out of three had no blossom at all, the third is dropping the few fruit it had, no bigger than a golf ball.

Apricot; no more than ten fruits on the tree, again failed to blossom in the screwed up spring weather.

Strawberries; those that the birds didn't get first have rotted on the bush before ripening.

Grapes however, at the mo', are looking pretty good, that of course will change in the middle of next week when we have a heat wave and everything will go nuts and fall off because "it's summer".

The grass is greener (on my side) and the frog has never looked happier, and we do this for fun, role on 2013!

[chris]

My All Gold Autumn raspberries are ripening up now, and they're tasty as usual.. Loosing a lot due to rot though, which I'm guessing is down to the rain. The chickens are enjoying the ones that are dropping though.

[shaza114]

first few pickings weren't too bad - but now they seem tasteless, definitely not the luscious raspberry flavour of last years. They are just about over, not worth picking the rest.

[chris]

I've been giving my chickens mine (as of late, they're all "past" it already) :/

[veggiechicken]

The dogs eat mine!