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Very cool Andy. Spuds look great. Jealous of the redcurrants. We've had strawberries for about three weeks now. Had to put all the lettuce up onto raised beds on stands as we have a few rabbits all of a sudden. First few broad beans have been eaten - young fresh beanios make great risotto.
 
Spuds we had for lunch with enough left over for a salad tomorrow. dug up from two plants, 18 more to go.
Strawberries now in the freezer will be used for jam when the rest have been picked. Redcurrants also in freezer will be added to apple crumbles later with some used for jam. Plenty more on the bushes to be picked. We’ve not started picking blackcurrants yet, the bush is loaded.
Runner beans will be late this year as seedings only just coming up.
 
My red current bush has loads on this year, and we have netted it again after the birds had the lot in one night.
They make very nice jam.

Pete
 
Glad to see you're educating your host nation with English cuisine. :)
 
Quite far ahead on us here. Redcurrants only starting to blush red. Picked more strawberries and yellow raspberries than ever before. Constant supply for on our porridge.
 
Ye gods. You soft southerners. Still earthing up our tatties up here; and they’re earlies. Red and black currants are a thing of the future. September maybe. Wouldn’t do to run out of home made crème de mures/cassis.

High hopes for the cherries this year. Well, increasing on the yield of one cherry wouldn’t be too hard. Espaliered against the best bit of the walled garden too. Ungrateful I call it.
 
MattS said:
Quite far ahead on us here. Redcurrants only starting to blush red. Picked more strawberries and yellow raspberries than ever before. Constant supply for on our porridge.
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I have just picked 700 grams and there is still loads left to ripen.

Pete
 
I have very low expectations for my tomatoes this year, they have sat around sulking for over a month. Courgettes are only just setting fruit.
 
Giving most away and eating a portion each day. Looking them up on the glycemic scale, even though they are sweet it does not present a problem for my diabetes. Make jam would however send my blood sugars crazy.
Last year rats had what fruit we produced but next doors 5 cats seem to have evicted the rats. I’ve not had any air rifle targets this year 😂
 
You can make sugar free jam Bob. Plenty of recipes out there using gelatine as a setting agent. With fresh ripe home grown fruit I do not even think that you would need to add a sweetener.
www.lowcarbmaven.com

Sugar-Free Strawberry Jam (low carb, keto)

A sugar free strawberry jelly recipe perfect for low carb keto or Paleo diets. This no pectin jam recipe is thickened with gelatin and super easy to make.
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AndyP said:
You can make sugar free jam Bob. Plenty of recipes out there using gelatine as a setting agent. With fresh ripe home grown fruit I do not even think that you would need to add a sweetener.
www.lowcarbmaven.com

Sugar-Free Strawberry Jam (low carb, keto)

A sugar free strawberry jelly recipe perfect for low carb keto or Paleo diets. This no pectin jam recipe is thickened with gelatin and super easy to make.
www.lowcarbmaven.com www.lowcarbmaven.com
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I shall give that a try. Just picked 930gm redcurrants and 1030gm of blackcurrants.
Its been a heavy crop of out fruits this year with raspberries getting going at 200gms perday and rising.
 
Ah. I have found a piccy of our tattie harvest from last year. This is maybe a third of it, including one that looks disturbingly like, erm, an item for personal gratification. Pink fir apple and either anya or charlotte. The whole harvest lasted us about 6 months. Won’t see them again until Aug/Sept.

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But I believe you can readily acquire potatoes from shops.

But if you live in the frozen north, that is what one must expect.
 
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I love 'tatoes that are all gnarly and natural unlike some of the shop offerings that look fake.
 
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