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What a topsy turvy year, now the soft fruit is in full swing we have the heavy rain to spoil it. No point in picking wet fruit is will just go off.
Will have to be patient and hope it dries out soon.

Beryl.

Dear Beryl, we have a lot of berries ready for picking here to, hopefully we can get it done tomorrow!

In my house, blink and someone's eaten the soft fruit, its never around long enough to spoil.

However picking it in the rain...

Agreed the wet weather arrived at the wrong time, but don't despair. Freeze the wet raspberries, take them out frozen and blitz with enough banana till it is icecream consistency, even my diabetic mum can enjoy that as icecream, delicious and fruity no fat or added sugar. Make a compote with it and it will keep, or rasberry sauce, or microwave jam, or blitz it with some yoghurt and enjoy a wet fruit smoothie.

Thanks OH and NB, the fruit won't get wasted but it is a shame, Tayberries just went squishy in my hands today and now the cherries are splitting with the onslaught of so much rain.

Just another point, is anyone growing the new purple raspberry from Marshalls, Glencoe? This is my first year and the catalogue did say it was vigorous and boy next years canes must be all of 7/8ft already. But in the high winds and rain the long branches laden with fruit are now almost touching the ground. Not making picking very easy. Doesn't hold up so well as my Glen Ample.

Beryl.