The soft fruit is looking good. We've picked several pounds of raspberries, loganberries and gooseberries, with plenty more to pick. It's all in the freezer ready for winemaking.
The bed with raspberries, gooseberries and loganberries is heavily overgrown with weeds. The weeds have loved the wet weather. I managed to clear most of the weeds from the raspberries the other day, but they're coming back with a vengeance. I really do need to keep the ground sheeted over, but that will have to wait until autumn / winter when everything dies back and I can see the ground more easily.
We've had a handful of strawberries, but the slugs seem to beat us. Regular slug pelleting seems to help.
Blackcurrants are doing well. They're big, fat and juicy, and are turning black. We weren't expecting any blackcurrants this year as it's a new plant, but they're coming. Likewise the reducurrants are doing well. No sign of any whitecurrants yet, but the bush seems to be growing well. No sign of anything from the blueberry either, although it's growing slowly, so that's a good thing.
The rhubarb is good, plenty picked, sliced and frozen. The rhubarb behind the greenhouse seems to have almost died off. That's the second lot I've planted there and it just does nothing. I'll dig it up and see if it comes back to life in pots.
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