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The pink blueberry has been moved and a new blueberry (currently at home) will be put in its place. I was hoping when I bought it that the pink blueberry would pollinate the blue one and give me nice big berries, but either it doesn't, or the blue variety (Spartan) has small berries. At home I have 2 bushes (Dixie and Bluecrop) which pollinate each other and produce large berries, so I have bought another Bluecrop which will hopefully do the trick.
The pink blueberry is now on the old raspberry bed. The idea is to plant it (if the soil ever dries out enough) and train it into more of a fan shape, which it sort of is anyway. Next to the centre post is a new redcurrant bush which I am also waiting to plant and train as a triple cordon, and I have 3 gooseberries on order which will go in the other half of the bed trained as cordons. Hopefully the wires which were put in for the raspberries will help with this.
The chilean guavas are nearly ripe. These are strange things with tough and sour skins, but if you can be bothered to peel them (they are the size of large peas) they taste pleasantly of strawberry.
The melon plants have died but I have left the 2 fruit to soak up any remaining sunshine. One is starting to turn yellow.
The courgette is still slowly developing fruit and there are more flower buds. As the forecast is for mild weather I am hopeful that they will get big enough to eat.
The pink blueberry has been moved and a new blueberry (currently at home) will be put in its place. I was hoping when I bought it that the pink blueberry would pollinate the blue one and give me nice big berries, but either it doesn't, or the blue variety (Spartan) has small berries. At home I have 2 bushes (Dixie and Bluecrop) which pollinate each other and produce large berries, so I have bought another Bluecrop which will hopefully do the trick.
The pink blueberry is now on the old raspberry bed. The idea is to plant it (if the soil ever dries out enough) and train it into more of a fan shape, which it sort of is anyway. Next to the centre post is a new redcurrant bush which I am also waiting to plant and train as a triple cordon, and I have 3 gooseberries on order which will go in the other half of the bed trained as cordons. Hopefully the wires which were put in for the raspberries will help with this.
The chilean guavas are nearly ripe. These are strange things with tough and sour skins, but if you can be bothered to peel them (they are the size of large peas) they taste pleasantly of strawberry.
The melon plants have died but I have left the 2 fruit to soak up any remaining sunshine. One is starting to turn yellow.
The courgette is still slowly developing fruit and there are more flower buds. As the forecast is for mild weather I am hopeful that they will get big enough to eat.
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