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HARDY PLANTS

June harvest

From early June, you have to go around every day to harvest the berries. This often takes half the day.

In the morning, we start with raspberries.
Just 4 rows, but they’re well loaded.
About the same amount per day from early to mid-June. Then comes Drosophila suzukii, which bites most of the fruit, leaving little or nothing to pick.
The second obligatory step is the redcurrants.
Harvesting currants takes only a week or 10 days.
The murier tree bears fruit throughout June, with new black berries every day.
The fruit is very sweet and very stale.
The serviceberry bushes are in full production. There’s the long-cluster variety, with pink or violet fruits, to be picked almost one by one.
And the variety with tight bunches, to be harvested in dark blue.
I prefer purple and pink saskatoons.
These yellow-orange fruits are Japanese medlars (Eriobotrya japonica). There are a lot of them this year.
Then, of course, the cherries. It’s a weak year, but they’re always too many anyway.
Are they worm-free? Not quite: worms were found in around 20% of the samples. Cherry flies are definitely a tough nut to crack. There were plenty caught in the pheromone trap, but some slipped through. We’ll have to put in two traps next year.
Around June 10, blueberries begin to appear, and are harvested for about a month, in several staggered varieties.
This is the fruit that requires the most patience and attention to pick.
June is the month with the most varieties of fruit.
Before the end of the month, there will be even more different berries.
June is also guava blossom season.
Guavas will have to wait until October.
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