This year in Ticino, the weather remained very rainy throughout the spring.
It didn’t get any better with the arrival of summer, marked by several extreme events: end of June floods and landslides in Val Mesolcina (freeway devastated, San Bernardino pass inaccessible), beginning of July same in Val Maggia (bridges blown down, upper half of valley inaccessible), mid-July storms and intense hail on the Magadino plain (destruction of market garden crops). This plain from Bellinzona to Lake Maggiore is the vegetable garden of Ticino, the Canton’s largest agricultural area.
This very wet weather was damaging for us too and severely compromised the berry harvest.

For redcurrants, blackberries (morus nigra) and saskatoons, the loss was almost total, as the storms caused everything to rot, except blackcurrants, which are more resistant.
Many raspberries were affected by bothrytis (grey rot), then drosophila suzukii arrived at the end of June. This midge lays its eggs in ripe fruit still on the plant, and the larva then renders the fruit totally inedible.
At the beginning of July, drosophila moved on to blueberries, fortunately with less virulence.
Around July 10, it began to attack the Japanese raspberries, but without causing too much damage, as the bulk of the crop had already been harvested.
On the other hand, our cherries, which are quite late (early to mid-June, Burlat variety) were excellent, without a single worm. Perhaps a positive side effect of this very strange weather.