Matron grows vegetables and fruit in a Hampshire garden. I've been growing veggies since I was knee high to a grasshopper. Some traditional varieties and old favourites as well as new ideas. I share my garden with my allotment assistant Daisy the Labrador. On Twitter as @MatronsVeggies
Has anyone noticed how many blackberries are around this year?
It seems to me as if there is a real glut this year, the hedgerows are loaded with them, and the blackberries in my garden are just fantastic.
It is fortunate therefore that it also looks to be a good year for my Bramley apple tree which I have had to thin out considerably. Apple and Blackberry are two flavours that just melt together perfectly. Anyone for crumble?
posted by Matron @ 9:35 AM
I was born 20 yards from our allotment. My parents used to 'dig for victory' and never got out of the habit. I grew up on an allotment, so growing veggies is a way of life. I am also qualified as a dog behaviourist and I have set up my own business, www.blackdogdna.com
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Apples and blackberries - a marriage made in heaven!
The hedgerows around here are seriously lacking in the wild plums I gathered last year for jam and chutney. Some years you win, this year you lose. I think it was late frosts at blossom time that saw them off.
Enjoy your fruit!
mmm. Blackberry and Apple crumble sounds awesome. Would you happen to know when the crab-apples ripen?
yummy! those pics are very nice
veg heaven - I came to the same conclusion about my plum tree. Just 4 plums on the whole tree this year. I am sure we had a late frost when it was in blossom.
Marigold - the crab apples I use are usually ready at the end of August
You're right about the blackberries - just got my first haul off the patch by the pub car park that has the best berries I've ever tasted. Destined for a crumble, I think, although I also want to try blackberry jam or jelly too ...
Yes please. I have the brambles but not cookers! x
It's strange seeing people growing blackberries in their gardens!
As my grandparents house, blackberries are a noxious weed (a yummy one though!). All through the pine plantations and on the riverbanks are masses of blackberry bushes.
About the only thing that will kill them (other than expensive poison) is goats... and that's a whole other story!
Do you grow raspberries as well? We get so many raspberries that I have to make jam out of them because no one in my family can eat so many!
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