It's been an exceptional year for fruits from the garden. We've been inundated by raspberries, tayberries and various currants, though sadly they are all over and done now. The strawberries cropped reasonably well earlier in the year and are just producing their late crop now. The only disappointment in the fruit stakes are our pears... there just three on the whole tree!
Next up will be a race between the apples and the grapes, although unless we get come consistent sunshine I fear the grapes probably won't ripen.
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| Grape vine, Bacchus |
These are our white grapes, the variety is called Bacchus, but don't be confused by the name they're a dessert grape.
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| Grape vine, Bacchus |
We have two white vines growing, both Bacchus and I guess if we ever did end up with a huge crop we could try making wine from them despite their being a dessert variety. We also have a Black Hamburg vine chosen because we were assured it's fruit would ripen without sunshine, but in fact it has proved to be less than fruitful.
Bizarrely I have no idea what variety our apple tree is. The little bundle of twigs and associated root-ball was sold as a Victoria Plumb. Once the plant started growing and produced leaves it obviously wasn't going to be a plum. I've always enjoyed apples so we decided to leave the tree and let it grow, this is the second year it has produced a reasonable crop of fruit.
These apples will be ready for eating a few weeks from now, they are crisp and slightly sweet and quite delicious with a piece of good cheese.
