A lot has been happening.
The peach and nectarine grew some fruit.
It hailed, and rained a lot, the fruit rotted on the tree or in the bowl after i picked it green and waited for it to ripen in the bowl.
The apples have a whole teo apples on them but i admit they've not been watered as much as i think they need.
The crab apple is nice and bit and bushy not, no fruit though.
My next door neighbor has an amazing fruit producing garden in such a small space and i'm utterly inspired to do the same in out yard.
My friend gave me an elder berry tree which is going in the ground today.
Another friend has allowed me to pick a whopping total of 20kg of cherry plums from her two trees and there's pears yet to come.
I've doe my first ever preserving, jams, chutney, cordials, Worcestershire sauce. So far pretty successfully although the fruit leather was a rather significant fail.
Needless to say i'm quite inspired and energetic about bringing more goodness to my own yard and goodies to the table from just outside my door.
My existing fruit trees are going to be getting a lot of love through the winter, the leaf curl will be hit hard and lots of fertaliser shall be administered.
IN addition to the Peach, nectarine, rhubarb, crab apple granny smith and golden delicious and the single sole strawberry plant I have left that already grow here i'm going to add.
Elder
Lemon
Black Current
Cherry
and maybe even a dwarf Almond
I'd also love to get a dwarf apricot but that's not a priority
I'm investigating whether or not a greengage plum is a viable option too.
Anyway that's where gecko block is atm i'm going to do a cherry plum wine making post soon, starting that today.
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