Blackberries’ bedtime

Now you see it... Now you don't... It's turned into a beautifully warm September day so I decided to cut out all the blackberry canes that held fruit this year so the plants are ready to hibernate over winter with just the new canes that have sprouted up this year. Now it's done though there …

Blackberry Jam

I can't wait any more because we physically can't fit anything else into our freezer - it's time to make jam with all the stockpiled blackberries! I picked another 3 tubs today and then got a shock when I started pulling tubs out of the freezer..... and found 16 more of them! No wonder there …

A momentous weekend…

The first bed edges have gone in! A year after deciding we were going to pretty much stick with the existing location of the beds and edge them so that we can build up a good layer enriched with manure, the first edging has gone into place!!! After begging and borrowing pallets and scavenging wood …