Blackcurrants
I am finding it difficult to keep up with the soft fruit picking at the moment. I go out almost every day and find something has ripened over the past 24hours.
I am having to share these blackcurrants with the blackbirds at the moment! They are perfectly ripe, and sometimes you find an enormous specimen! It is also quite entertaining to find dollops of bright purple bird poo all over the garden (unless it is on your clean washing hung out to dry!)
posted by Matron @ 7:51 AM
11 Comments:
Those blackcurrants are so big and juicy looking!
I was able to cover my blackcuirrants with netting this year, but not the redcurants, the birds got to pretty much all of them. Oh well, some for them some for us.
It's lucky the male birds are black - allows for some sloppy eating and no fear of the drips showing on the shirt front!
The birds are happy to share and I'm sure you don't mind:) What a harvest!
Those look delicious! Wish I were nearby... I would offer to help you "keep up" with the harvest!
What beautiful berries!
That would be awful to have your drying laundry dotted with purple spots!
Reminds me of a time quite a while ago.. prekids... when I was walking past the old post office building in Boston's financial district in my black suit jacket... when a bunch of startled pigeons pelted me white!!!
great blog :o) I'm inspired by your idea of photographing produce alongside something to illustrate how big it is. Zooms have an uncanny way if making currants look enormous and whopping cabbages small!
Hi Matron, Some of the new varieties of Black Currants are really big, I bought a couple of new bushes last year and although they haven't fruited much as yet it looks like when they do we're going to have loads of big berries. Its hard to know what to do at the moment because there are things that want picking but there are also weeds needing to be got up not to mention hedges to cut and flowers to dead head. Bob.
The berries are splendid ! I guess it’s a toss up between sharing and purple poo, or wasting precious gardening time untangling birds from netting. He!
I watched Hampton Court Flower Show this week-end (via torrent site). There’s a lot of emphasis in recent years about growing veg. (Matron must be thrilled). I know these show gardens are staged to the hilt but the veg gardens were all really lovely, don't you think ?
You are bringing in quite the harvest! How sweet to share it with the critters too... I'm still in troubled computer land, but I'll try to submit a photo later today! Your broad beans are putting on quite the flower, here!
I thought my currants were safe, they were getting really juicy looking. Then a fat looking blackbird has beaten me to it though and munched them all today. (We didn't have as many as you).
Bob - Yes, I think I remember reading about a blackcurrant / gooseberry hybrid? was it called a jostaberry?
Miss M - yes, all the 'flower shows' are doing more vegetables to reflect what the public wants. Even Mr President and Her Majesty are getting in on the act too!
Petunia - So glad to hear that your crimson broad beans are doing well, they are spectacular!
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