[Food] Figs, grapes and raspberries

[BrightonCottager]

I've just had the first figs off the tree in the garden - lush but smaller than normal. Meanwhile, the grapes seem oddly sparse but the raspberries are rampant. Anyone else finding this? Is it the weather?

 

[Bry Nylon]

I hope you can run fast...

 

[Algernon]

Should make things easier for you

 

[LamieRobertson]

I hope you can run fast...

Have to say I was expecting this thread to be about a blockage

 

[Cheshire Cat]

My raspberries just boiled away in the heat (which was a shame because they had potential for once this year).

 

[AmexRuislip]

I've just had the first figs off the tree in the garden - lush but smaller than normal. Meanwhile, the grapes seem oddly sparse but the raspberries are rampant. Anyone else finding this? Is it the weather?

My raspberries just boiled away in the heat (which was a shame because they had potential for once this year).

We've had a bumper crop of blueberries, white, red and black currants together with blackberries, which are fab.

 

[btnbelle]

My blackberries are really tasty and there is a lot of apples on the tree.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Figs and dates are the devils poop

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[BrightonCottager]

We've had a bumper crop of blueberries, white, red and black currants together with blackberries, which are fab.

Forgot to mention my small but tasty blueberries. I envy your soft fruit collection. When I had an allotment, I envied one of my neighbours who had created a fruit cage over teh whole of his full-size plot, except for space for a trampoline.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Forgot to mention my small but tasty blueberries. I envy your soft fruit collection. When I had an allotment, I envied one of my neighbours who had created a fruit cage over teh whole of his full-size plot, except for space for a trampoline.

They're great in smoothies and with yoghurt etc..
But a bugger to pick

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

I went off figs when I found out about fig wasps.

 

[brakespear]

I've just had the first figs off the tree in the garden - lush but smaller than normal. Meanwhile, the grapes seem oddly sparse but the raspberries are rampant. Anyone else finding this? Is it the weather?

There's a fig tree growing in the grounds of a house in Worthing - the branches overhang the pavement and it seems to produce figs all year round as far as I can tell

 

[BrightonCottager]

I went off figs when I found out about fig wasps.

And?

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

And?

They burrow into figs, their wings come off and the wasps can’t get out.

 

[Baldseagull]

There's a fig tree growing in the grounds of a house in Worthing - the branches overhang the pavement and it seems to produce figs all year round as far as I can tell

Those could be little sacks of dog shit, try one.

 

[BrightonCottager]

They burrow into figs, their wings come off and the wasps can’t get out.

Yikes. Thanks for the warning. I'll cut them open before eating them.

 

[Seagull27]

Yikes. Thanks for the warning. I'll cut them open before eating them.

There's probably been one in every fig you've eaten, it's part of the pollination process. The fig then digests the wasp. So there's no real danger of finding a whole one inside the fruit.

https://www.popsugar.co.uk/food/How-Figs-Grown-43854002

 

[Wellesley]

My plums look nice and plumper than usual. Must be the warm weather.

 

[BrightonCottager]

There's probably been one in every fig you've eaten, it's part of the pollination process. The fig then digests the wasp. So there's no real danger of finding a whole one inside the fruit.

https://www.popsugar.co.uk/food/How-Figs-Grown-43854002

wow, so figs are carnivorous?! Luckily insects are in my food chain ( but not bigger land animals).

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

My plums look nice and plumper than usual. Must be the warm weather.

....and my berries are huge and juicy.
The best I have seen them for many years.