Today I harvested 2022….

[annie8]

Decent punnet of rasps

[Nicos]

More apples

[Jungle Jane]

Pears,the first small bunch of grapes,tomatoes,a cucumber,handful of runner beans & four small courgettes.

[Bren In Pots]

Toms for this evening’s sauce, a trug of apples that we’ve dehydrated, cooking then freezing the smaller slices. After that the rest of the apples were juiced.

[ameno]

Tenderstem broccoli, peppers, and another dozen pears.

[bramble]

Just tomatoes today.

[Plot70]

Runner beans and a big punnet of tomatoes.
A few beetroot from around a guest purple skinned potato that proved itself blight resistant last year. The top looked ready and the crop was.
I am keeping some tubas for next year for a formal row of these.

[Nicos]

Apples for freezing plus green beans for supper.

[Sweet savory]

DFB 3 bags for the freezer. 2 courgettes. 3 very mini butternut squash - I had been away and the plant had died when I returned. 6 runner beans from flowers that came after the bit of rain recently. Small parsnips that were in the way of where I will plant the spring greens.

[Nicos]

Blackberries and a few long branches of bay to dry in the chimney

[Bren In Pots]

Apples, raspberries, toms, basil and mixed lettuce.

[peanut]

Toms, Q's, basil, parsley, peppers and a single courgette.

[Plot70]

Mostly cape gooseberries.
A small number of tomatoes and a small number of cucamelons.
I ate a small number of raspberries.

[ameno]

Mostly cape gooseberries.

What variety do you grow, and how do you manage to get a good crop from them outside?
I've been trying to grow them for years, but I always seem to have such trouble getting them going. The seeds either don't germinate or else they damp off (despite never having had any other seedlings damp off on me ever), and then when you do grow they seem to grow only very slowly to start with. By the time I get decent plants large enough to plant out, it's usually late June, and then although they do grow well and produce lots of fruit, only about 5% of them actually ripen before the first frosts.

[Plot70]

What variety do you grow, and how do you manage to get a good crop from them outside?
I've been trying to grow them for years, but I always seem to have such trouble getting them going. The seeds either don't germinate or else they damp off (despite never having had any other seedlings damp off on me ever), and then when you do grow they seem to grow only very slowly to start with. By the time I get decent plants large enough to plant out, it's usually late June, and then although they do grow well and produce lots of fruit, only about 5% of them actually ripen before the first frosts.

I bought a packet of fruit from a supermarket and planted all the seeds from several fruits.
In the first year I got a small amount of late fruit. I then built a wall of horse manure around the root stocks after the frost trimmed the tops and patted all the stems in over the roots and covered the bed with a sheet of glass from a scrap patio door.
A second bed was made up with root stocks that were grown in a greenhouse border for there first year and transplanted.
They took ages to get going in the cold weather in the spring.
The transplant bed fruited earlier with smaller fruits.

I have only found one or two cracked fruits due to the spell of hot weather.