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HARDY PLANTS

June picking – again

As the month progresses, the fruit changes but there’s still plenty to pick.

Blueberries are in full production (American blueberries: Vaccinium corymbosum). They are picked in the shade of chestnut trees.
Just choose the blue fruit.
And then be patient. There are as many on each plant, about twenty in all.
Different varieties with different fruit sizes and tastes.
Next door, but in full sun, a red fruit is now ripe.
These are the sticky raspberries, Rubus phaenicolasius.
All the rows are covered with bunches.
Fruits are protected by sticky pods. When they open, the tiny fruit quickly ripens.
It looks like a mini raspberry but with a different, sweeter taste.
All those hairs on the bunches are sticky. Protection against insects, no doubt.
And indeed, they are very little affected by drosophila suzuki. Real raspberries (Rubus idaeus), on the other hand, are attacked from mid-June.
Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum) attracts a lot of aphids and therefore ants. It can be annoying while picking.
On the other hand, whole bunches ripen at the same time.
This year the fruit is large, and the intense rains must have helped.
The harvest isn’t over yet – more soon. A break for a promise of fruit in October and November: the tangerines have formed on the Satsuma Owari, and are less than a centimetre long.
And another harvest promise with the chestnut trees in bloom at the end of June.
And don’t forget the nuts. This is all for the fall.
More fruit to come in a few days.
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