No damsons or plums this year...

[John Fenna]

No sloes at all!
Not sure about the damsons as I have not yet checked, but generally the fruit harvest around here is very poor this year

 

[Bluebs4]

Ah well neat gin it is then

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[Geoff Dann]

Sounds like it is all very localised, which makes sense if this is about the bees not being able to get out of their hives. You only need 2 or 3 days of fine weather, provided they come at exactly the right time and there are some local bees to do the job. But there are fewer bees around and this year there was a lot of rain, so it seems that in a lot of location there never was 2 or 3 days of fine weather at the right time, or there weren't any bees.

 

[MartiniDave]

We've got some sloes (Cambridgeshire) but not a lot of blackberries. Oddle enough I've recently seen a couple of elder bushes that have both berries and flowers on at the same time. Crab apples seem a bit sparce too.

Dave

 

[BeerHunter]

The OH did very well again with her strawberries, but nobody round my way has any plums, damsons, apples or pears. The wine-making will be limited to elderberries and blackberries this year.

 

[NikolaTesla]

Some here in Llanelli, nothing, been checking the cherry plum tree's, nothing, no sloes, not even blackberries.

Although there is alot of rowan berries.

 

[TallMikeM]

we have 3 plum trees, not a single plum to be had. Lots of apples, but very small, I suspect this years cider crop will be a vintage. Haven't checked the sloes yet, keep forgetting.

 

[F7144]

I must be lucky, here in Kent/Sussex I have found damsons, bullace, sloes, crabs, and tonnes of blackberries. Fungi not doing so good as professional pickers are a problem down here. Still it's early days yet.

Luke

 

[fishfish]

folklore says that the prunus family has a 2 year cycle,twas good last year and so this year will be lean,next year will be bountiful again.

 

[andybysea]

2nd year running poor quality plums on our tree.

 

[crosslandkelly]

Plenty of apples on my neighbours three trees, but very few pears on my mums two trees. Only three miles apart.

 

[HillBill]

Pears only fruit properly every two years according to Rachael ( lifelong pear tree owner )

 

[crosslandkelly]

Ahh, that would explain it, she had tons of them last year. We made some perry, first time and very nice too.

 

[Tengu]

Found plenty of sloes today.

However they are a wee bit green, Id give them a couple of weeks.

Im sure I can find a way of getting them to the sloe deprived.

 

[andreos1]

Popped round the parentals over the weekend and their greengage tree has had its second successive poor yield. Never noticed/asked about the rhubarb, but noticed the Blackberries in some areas being low in numbers, but big in size. Has anyone else noticed they seem to be coming earlier and earlier? Can rembember picking them when I was younger during the October school holidays!

 

[Ruvio]

Everythings full in Lincolnshire. All kinds of stone fruit, soft fruit, apples, pears, crabs, quinces.

 

[British Red]

Not in the South of Lincs it isn't!

Just had a long chat with a neighbour who runs a farm services business (combine harvesters etc.). As well as fruit being bad, the wheat harvest is a disaster - both quantity and quality

 

[xylaria]

I found a sloe yesterday, so i pricked it and put it in what should be rumtopf, but is more just strawberry and blackberry rum.

I grew wheat as an experiment this year the modern wheat is lying flat, and the spelt is doing very little. I am going to plant a winter wheat with the spelt this week, it might work. i am going to experiment with cooking with club rush seed. It would be good to know what food works on really wet years for future food security.

 

[British Red]

I've managed to get hold of a very small quantity of Spring sown heritage long stem wheat Xylaria - its in the store waiting for next year......hope I manage to get it going as I want to grow it for a couple of years just to propogate a decent amount!

 

[Ruvio]

Not in the South of Lincs it isn't!

Just had a long chat with a neighbour who runs a farm services business (combine harvesters etc.). As well as fruit being bad, the wheat harvest is a disaster - both quantity and quality

I'm fairly southerly. In Bourne and the surrounding area there's a fair amount. If you're around I'd be happy to show you where.