Thank you for your thoughts on how I might sell our excess produce. I am still unsure what to do. I was excited when I heard that the local council has an open market produce day at the end of next month, but the stalls are £35 !!
Anyway there is still time to decide. In the meantime I will try to improve our roadside signs and carry on processing what I can. This is taking up a huge amount of time, but it would be criminal to let anything go to waste.
The fruit trees are exceptional this year.
Here is one of our twelve apple trees, a Bramley
The Medlar
And most exciting of all, for the first time...Peaches! (Red Haven)
Extra busy weekend as twenty or so folks descend on us, most camping or caravaning with just a couple or so on the house. Copious amounts of baking etc done before hand , much by my youngest daughter and her daughter, so that we can all enjoy ourselves. This is easy peasy after the big party we had in July with well over a hundred and thirty odd tents!
I still haven't taken a picture of the new family dogs to put on the blog, perhaps I will remember to do so this weekend.
Here is one photo I DO have. This is Hattie. This was taken two months ago when she was sixteen weeks old. She is my eldest granddaughter's dog (company for her yellow Lab, Coda) Hattie, who has a delightful personality, is a Bernese Mountain dog and is going to be HUGE.
Love Gillx
Gosh...you would have to sell some stuff to cover a £35 stall charge.
ReplyDeleteWhat a marvellous show of fruit you have. I was extremely proud of our apricot tree when it actually sprouted one fruit....lol....then it fell off and the birds got it. It never fruited again and is now pretty much dead and acting as a support for a climbing rose. The plum tree died just about as soon as it was planted.
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Oh dear you haven't had much luck with your stone fruit have you?! Why not try again, you never know. Quince are my nemesis. grew a lovely tree with lots of fruit just one year, it then spent the next three years dying.
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I wish I could say the same about our fruit crop. As usual the only trees to excel are the Figs and Quinces, although we have a good crop of Bramleys, and some Peaches. Next year!
ReplyDeleteWe had four figs this year and our quincee has died ! Between us we could cover all fruit bases! How is your jonogold?
Deletewe have a huge crop of apples , but theyre pathetically small , i harvested a huge box of windfalls yesterday in the rain to try and avoid the plague of wasps from the fallen plums . may make the effort to go and get brambles later then construct jam or pie filling depending on motivation levels that are a tad lacking at the moment
ReplyDeleteOur brambles are just about finished. Like you we have buckets and buckets of windfalls, but some of the apples that are left are not a bad size. Hope you get your mojo back so that you can take advantage of the ots of free pickings out there is time of year.
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Wow, an amazing amount of fruit (and amazing amount of work to process it all!). Sounds like you're going to have a wonderful weekend.
ReplyDeleteMy kitchen is starting to fill with buckets of produce now, but after a lovely weekend I am now going to buckle down to the processing.
DeleteThat's a huge amount of fruit - absolutely fantastic! Have a lovely weekend.
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Thanks Joy. Yes we did!
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That's a goodly amount of fruit, hope you have an empty freezer or kilner jars ready and waiting and a "few" minutes to get it all ready.
ReplyDeletePlums here are either wasped or maggoted - plenty of pears and apples though
mmmm might find a few minutes somewhere! We have a problem with maggots in some of the plums which means I can't really sell them.
DeleteI didn't mention that we only had four figs and seven pears!
The extended very hot weather changed our harvest this year, well done with the peaches.
ReplyDeleteYes things are topsy turvey here too. I have never tried to grow peaches before, Derbyshire is a little too far north I thinK. This tree was a two year old I bought four years ago. I hope they taste as good as they look I suppose they might not be as sweet as we are use to.
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I love damsons, wished we lived closer!
ReplyDeleteI think they are a fruit that many people have not even tried, tho' they are rarely seen in the shops I suppose. I wished you lived nearer too!
DeleteJill, if you have sloes ? Warner Edwards Gin May take them. Emma
ReplyDeleteStrangely, considering the rest of the stone fruit, no we haven't many sloes. Do they use other fruits?
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I would buy some if you weren't in Derbyshire.
ReplyDeleteI'd be happy to let you have some if you weren't in Bath!
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I really fancy some of those damsons - haven't tasted one in years.
ReplyDeleteReally? Do they not grow up your way? They are a very unappreciated fruit I think.
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Oh, Red Haven is our favorite and I haven't been able to find them for a few years now! Used to buy them near Lake Chautauqua near upstate New York.
ReplyDeleteAre you in the US now? I hope they taste as good as they look!
DeleteGood to see you here thanks for commenting
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Your fruit trees look amazing. In the past I sold blueberries. Put a sign at the top of the driveway and passersby would drive down to buy them. A few years ago I had a lot of volunteer dill in my garden. I hated to put it onto the compost heap so I called three grocery stores and asked for the produce manager. Only one was interested in buying but he has been buying my dill ever since. Since it volunteers in the garden, there is no work in growing it but I do bundle it for the convenience of the store. I sold 68 bundles at $1.75 each making my garden a profitable venture! Try your local grocers. You may be surprised that they will buy from a small grower. Lepidilla
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