Fruit picking
All the plums are now picked and sold - a good crop of Victoria plums plus a reasonable crop of the other less known varieties and lots of jam made and sold using plums, strawberries, blackberries and even elderberries and mulberries from the farm! We have now picked the majority of the pears, with large crop of Conference and surprising good quality considering they havent been sprayed although we are not expecting it to be so good in future years. We hope to have some made into Pear Juice and also plan to pick some Perfection and Greensleeves apples this week for juicing. As we only have one cold store and pears and apples cannot be stored together, we are leaving the apples on the trees as long as we can. We are continuing to clear the vegetation around the ponds to open them up and hopefully encourage more wildlife and birds and make them so we can walk beside and enjoy them. Victoria plums Conference pears At the waters edge View towards St Ive...