Today's Little Harvest

Picked these today; 8 cucumbers (family, friends & neighbours will be eating cucumber sandwiches this week ), some beans, 3 toms (only ripening a few at a time at the moment) and some autumn raspberries - yummy

 

A lovely sight Bilbo. I love to see Home grown produce like this. Bet it'll all taste luvvly,
Jenny

 

I find the raspberries very easy to be honest, I've got about 6 canes of a summer variety that provides my main 'ample' crop and 1 cane (well more of a bush) of the autumn variety. I feed them and mulch them every spring and keep them well watered in dry spells, especially when they're fruiting. Pruning wise, it's easy with the summer variety, you just remove the canes that have finished fruiting and the new ones which will have been growing through the summer will fruit the following year..

 

First year I've grown cucumber Jenny and to be fair it tastes much better than shop bought stuff, I'll definitely be growing them again next year; 4 plants are providing me with plenty

 

My summer variety is Glen Moy and they've been fantastic this year, cropping very heavily

 

I don't find them too bad, mine are tied to wires to keep them tidy and help support them when they're laden with fruit. The width of the row is only 12-18 inches and it's perhaps 8-10ft long, but because you're always removing the older spent canes they don't grow into one massive thicket; height wise they get to around 6ft

 

Good crop Bilbo - so much satisfaction with pick your own homegrown!

 

Nice haul; I'm loving shopping in my garden

Thanks for the information on raspberries, too. I bought one from the 99p shop but planted it in a "veg bag" planter last Spring. Yesterday, when I was watering the garden, I noticed it actually had half a dozen fruit!! Now, having read how I was *supposed* to look after them, I think I shall call them my "Miracle" raspberries