Year in Review - Fruit

Alpine strawberies, small but delicious, so Lisa tells me... one of the rare successes this year, a nice little strawberry patch!


One bonus his year was discovering that a neglected neighbouring plot used to be a well kept orchard. It is full of well established apple and pear trees. The only problem with the trees being established is that most of the good fruit is way out of our reach, but we boosted our own harvest with the odd raid into the orchard, acompanied by the neighbour's children, which saw us returning with carrier bags full of pears!!


Another neighbouring plot is blackberry city, I cut most of the overhanging shoots back, but kept a few sticking through the fences, so we'd got our own supply!!


Then there are the plum trees in the tree zone, 2 trees, one a victoria and the other has yellow plums on it... not sure of the variety on that one though...



The tree zone has had a really good haircut recently, just in time for bonfire night and over the next year i intend to tame the whole area and make full use of it...