How's your fruit progressing?

[forgetmenot]

I haven't been on the plot for a week but today I saw something that brought a smile to my face...... my very first strawberries have made an appearance!

How's all your fruit coming along?

[Bigmallly]

Yep, good so far as long as I don't lose too much come June drop...............Peaches, Nectarines, Strawberries, Raspberries, Plums, Pears all starting to show.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Indoor strawberries eating, outdoor strawberries with small fruit, raspberries in bud should flower soon.

[Jay-ell]

Apples are still in blossom, cherries blossom has just dropped so have to hait a bit to see if any of these will have fruit.

My little figs are swelling up a bit now.

Red Currants have oodles of berries on three of them, about 3 berries on the other two (these were given this year as grace as they looked almost dead last year - nice and green now after an aggressive prune so they'll have next year to fruit up or go)

Gooseberries are drapes with little green baubles (not mine that's just the red currants) - the problem with gooseberries is that I like them ripe red and sweet but I also like them green, unripe and tart so I have to balance them off against each other.

Black Currants are also covered in lovely little strings of green currants.

Honeyberries have fruit - forgot to check them today they should be ready soon.

Himalayan Honeysuckle if green and starting to grow up - hacked it back to 8 inches earlier onand it could be 8 foot by the end of the year. Won't start flowering till mid summer and the treacly chocolatey flavoured berries are more of a tantalising tease than a full harvest as they ripen one at a time.

Strawberries are flowering but not fruiting yet - got knocked back a bit by frost.

Blackberries are covered with flower buds so they should look a sight tied over the arch when they open.

Summer rasps are getting lots of flower buds and loads of new canes coming up each week. Same goes for the Autumn rasps (though less flowers)

Kiwi was hit by the frost nipping off a lot of its growing tips but is bouncing back. No fruit this year (and probably not next year) but the framework is building up (thug indeed - ha)

Grapes are starting to put up new growth. Again just building the framework at the moment but in a couple of years I should have a bumper harvest of stuffed vine leaves.

[Jay22]

Just noticed the first flowers on my strawberries yesterday. Apple still in blossom but pear and plum have loads of fruitlets, probably too many for the size of the trees but as BM says, will,wait until June drop and see how they are looking. Glen Ample raspberries seem to have decided to stop growing for some reason, the canes have been the same height (not very tall) for ages.

[damian1225]

I only have strawberries, some are flowering now and others nowhere near yet so should have some by wimbledon and then a later crop to follow... a slow steady supply unless they all play catch up and ruin my plan lol

[burnie]

Yep me too, Mara des Bois in the greenhouse has fruit growing, strawbs outside in flower, guzz gogs covered in fruit, ditto black currents and apple trees covered in blossom. Even the honey berry looks to have a fair amount of fruit, not bad as I only have one bush.

[forgetmenot]

Everyone has such great varieties of things. Love observing all the differences in people's plots!

[Chris11]

Strawberries are the only fruit I grow. It's great to have them to eat during Wimbledon

Can't really count the Goji bush, as I haven't managed to get it productive yet.

I'd like to grow a lot more, especially blueberries.

And if I had the time/space/money, I'd love to have a cider apple orchard.

[AkionTotocha]

After all the reports I'd heard about goji berry plants being unable to produce fruit (Unless you get dried fruit seeds to germinate) I pulled mine out at the beginning of this year. 5 years is enough time to at least flower. (Though I did read that you can eat the tender shoots of unfruiting goji's, I didn't bother trying)

My pink blueberry has a flower, and the gooseberry and whitecurrant have little green baubles dangling from their branches which is exciting.

The flat peach is covered in fuzzy little peachlings, which are getting fatter every day.

[Jay-ell]

And if I had the time/space/money, I'd love to have a cider apple orchard.

Possible - Jonagold is a multipurpose apple including cider (it's a triploid so it does need 2 pollination partners though) bought mind at one of the cheap shops last year (Aldi/Lidl/B&M)

Square Foot Orchard – Jasons Jungle

[burnie]

Honeyberry looks ok, second year and only one plant, if I can keep the birds out I might get a few, wonder how big they should be, the berries that is.

[BUFFS]

the peaches are now the size of large plums and starting to look good, loads of goosegogs and looks like our best crop of blackcurrants so far..

[Yasai]

I have lovely, red loganberries in the garden. I'd never even heard of loganberries until someone gave me a plant as a gift. Didn't prune it because I wasn't sure how to so I'm happy to be getting any fruit at all.

[MissPea]

Indoor strawberries eating, outdoor strawberries with small fruit, raspberries in bud should flower soon.

Can I ask how are you growing them indoors?