No damsons or plums this year...
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It's a low yield here too. No Damsons at all, only a few poorly looking wild plums, and what plums have come in the garden seem to be rotting or getting eaten before I can get to them. No cider making this year by the looks of it either 
Perrari
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Yep ! there is atree nearby which is normally full of fruit, but nothing this year. Not many sloes either.
The usual sloe bushes the council destroyed this year, the first time they have ever bothered with that lane with one of those tractor driven things that smash bushes down to a fraction of their size. And the other place where sloes can be found up on the cliffs, there's a few out but they are miniscule in size compared to other years, so it will be no sloe gin this year, will have to think of something else to give as xmas presents, as I can't stand the stuff.
I have been told there is a few damsons out though near my cousin a mile away but this year it is a very poor fruit harvest, pity the wildlife more than us.
I have been told there is a few damsons out though near my cousin a mile away but this year it is a very poor fruit harvest, pity the wildlife more than us.
Shed loads of skies, damsons, walnuts, cherries, blackberries and Hawes round here baby! Hampshire.
We have got tons of strawberries and rasperries. All the soft fruits are doing well. No peaches showing on our tree though. Seems stone fruits have taken a hit.
Down Sussex way there are far less damsons that are usually around, blackberries are not as good either, all my scrumping fig tree areas are a disappointment as well but beggars can't be choosers on this point.
There was almost constant rain in the pollination period for many of the plum family this year around here. Pretty much total crop fail
Down Sussex way there are far less damsons that are usually around, blackberries are not as good either, all my scrumping fig tree areas are a disappointment as well but beggars can't be choosers on this point.
There's loads of cherry plums up near the racecourse...
And I can't agree with you about the blackberries either. I'm finding loads of them too, and juicy ones.
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I've got 4 plums ripening slowly and a few damsons. - last year was a bumper crop. The only trees bearing fruit in abundance around here are rowans. Currants did well though.
No fruit at all here in northern France.. I have several damson, plumb, green gage and cherry trees, as well as apples, last year we were snowed under with all sorts of fruits... This year!!! No fruit at all on the soft fruit trees, zero!! Apples look to be very, very poor... most trees having none at all, and only a few on others...
Glad I don't make a livign growing fruit, must be a real catastrophy for some places...
Guess we'll all end up spending more on imported fruit or going without....
cheers
Gareth
Glad I don't make a livign growing fruit, must be a real catastrophy for some places...
Guess we'll all end up spending more on imported fruit or going without....
cheers
Gareth
Sloes are doing ok for me. In my orchard the pears are so-so (some trees excellent, others devoid of fruit), and the apple trees are bare.
The high winds in the summer destroyed the flowers and early fruit.
The high winds in the summer destroyed the flowers and early fruit.
very very bad for the apples over here as well, hardly any on our tree and the ones that are there aren't growing.
On my dads allotment he used a pheromone on his plum tree and it is has a good yield, but his berry bushes and trees are looking almost bear compared to last year.
