It can't go on for much longer!

I can't believe that we are still harvesting soft fruit despite the wet and dreary weather - surely this can't go on for much longer.

The fruit that we harvested yesterday may not look much but should be set in the context that fruit had also been picked a couple of days before as shown below.

The raspberries have been incredible - we're still picking autumn varieties and the yellow variety seem to be performing the best they have ever done - they must have heard that we were thinking of digging them up! The berries are gradually becoming smaller but are still welcome and tasty.

The blackberries on the older prickly bramble are now past their best but there are still some bright shiny berries on the new thornless Loch Ness. The few in the top photo are Loch Ness.

The everbearing strawberries - Flamenco are still bearing fruit. One of the early fruiting plants has green berries but I would be surprised if they develop enough to be picked.

The ones above are from the bed covered in weed control fabric. Some berries in this bed have gone mouldy with the damp but none were nibbled unlike the  those in the uncovered bed. The fruits are a decent size too.

We have a couple of cranberry plants growing in tubs and I picked all the berries from one bush.

Strangely the other bush growing just on the other side of the greenhouse door has only about six fruits. Same condition, same care strange!

PS - I've made passing comments about this year's foray into green manure use. I haven't gone into great detail as it's really Martyn's project but if you want to read an update, Martyn has posted about it on his blog here

PPS - Sorry if you ended up with all my stupid spam in any comments update - I hot the wrong button! I promise to try not to do it again.