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I have no Stone Fruit at all this year and no Pears and virtually no Apples and my mid season Yellow Raspberries are rotting rather than ripening and the strawberries are doing the same. I have rigged a mini poly tunnel over the Strawberries and only time will tell if this will be successful. I have cleared all the visible rotting fruits and hope that I will at least get something.
All in all the worst year for gardening I have ever known.
Farming wise it is damn near a disaster year.
JB.

Our farmers called it cropageddon Johnboy.

As if we haven't enough to contend with this year, now have fruit bushes being stripped by the 2 legged beasties on our plot.
I had picked all my gooseberries but sadly some hadn't and red/black currants and raspberries are going to.

Leaves a nasty feeling 'cos we always say it is someone on the plot that does it.


Beryl.

That's awful, Beryl. After investing so much time and effort into producing your fruit, it must be heartbreaking when something like that happens

I mustn't point the finger Mouse but we do have our suspicions. We will have to be more vigilant for now. It hasn't happended for a good many years so I suppose in that respect we should be thankful.

Beryl.

Lost the whole of my plum crop this week. Mind you, it was only one scabby fruit between two trees!

We just enjoyed a handfull of morello cherries now finished - last year I moaned there were so many to destone. I counted about fifteen apples growing - last year the neighbours had a gift of a boxful we had so many!
have decided to plant strawberries in the greenhouse border in autumn for next year - this constant rain does them no favours at all !

I managed just 7 Beauty plums today. And that's the toal crop.

Czar and Victoria looking dreadful, what fruit is there is covered in black sooty mould.

All but given up on outdoor tomatoes, even the Ferline are now turning black and will have to come out. But the courgettes never fail, having diffuculty in giving them away now.

Beryl.

Still nursing my 2 plums through the sunshine & heat. Beauty is going reddish other one is green & hard. Fingers crossed. Who'd ever have thought I'd be so excited from 2 plums! No pears but both russet & red apples have a fair(ish) crop.

Next will be ruddy wasps no doubt!

Westi

Only 1 plum left - Beauty has been robbed of her only plum which was just reddening! Deffo going to dig it up and take it home to nuture it more. But blackberries are making me !

Westi