Showing posts with label Edible gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edible gardening. Show all posts
16 May 2018
A bumper year for fruit?
Now that the last of the fruit blossom has dropped - quince excepted - my current obsession is to walk around the garden checking for fruitlets. I've been gardening in the veg patch for almost a decade now and this has become a bit of an annual ritual. I'm looking after ten fruit trees (apples, pears, plums, cherries and quince) as well as soft fruit and it's incredibly frustrating to see beautiful blossom fall to the ground before being pollinated. So, every spring, I'm on the lookout for fruit set. It's a hazard of urban gardening that any wind is funnelled between buildings, creating challenging conditions for insects to pollinate and blossom to stay put on the tree. This year though, I've got a good feeling that the crazy weather so far this year might just have been the perfect thing for the fruit trees.
Labels:
Edible gardening,
Fruit,
grow your own
Posted by
Caro
at
17:18
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