Thankyou everyone for your kind comments on my last
post. I have now had a good rest and am
feeling much more the thing!
Yesterday I even managed to do some gardening. Son has been helping me get my small potted
flower garden sorted out. Too many
overgrown plants, too many weeds, simply too overwhelming to even start
tackling a clean-up job, so I’ve been very grateful to have his help.
Our weather has been settled the last few days but we had
some rain come in late yesterday, and I only just remembered to gather some
fruit before it arrived.
The grape, which was so severely knocked back in an
unseasonally cold spring storm, came away again and is giving us a plentiful
supply of grapes. Nothing tastes quite
like a sweet grape picked direct from the vine!
The blackberries are in full season, and we are getting a
small bowlful from them every couple of days.
They are now quite sweet, unlike the early fruit which were so sour they
left your mouth puckered up.
The strawberries, however, are at the very end of their
season and the fruit is small and pickings are slim. The bird netting has been removed from the
beds so that the birds can enjoy some of this last harvest as well.
And now I had better leave my computer and go and do some
dishes. Son is wanting to bake a fruit
cake later, and it is difficult to do any kind of cooking in a kitchen that
contains a pile of dirty dishes!
Have an awesome day, wherever you are and whatever you are
doing 😊
Margaret.
Sorting out the overgrown plants in pots is a job I'll be doing in a month or so. I know I'' feel overwhelmed by the task and wish I hadn't filled as many pots as I did. Lovely fruit you've gotten from your garden. The grapes especially look wonderfully tasty. GM
ReplyDeleteI hope you will be able to find someone (or one of your wonderful sons!) to help you :)
DeleteFruit cake sounds dangerous! Being on a strict diet and baking seem to be polar opposites.
ReplyDeleteJust as well I'm not on a STRICT diet, David! Because I am doing Lifestyle instead of Diet, I allow myself a little treat two or three times a week - otherwise that cake could very easily be dangerous! :)
DeleteYou sound a lot better today! And I envy those wonderful fruit harvests. It's nice you thought of the birds, too, enjoying the last of the strawberries. Go you!
ReplyDeleteI like to leave something for the birds, and they usually return the favour by eating any bugs etc. that may be lurking among the leaves :)
DeleteWhat a wonderful harvest. The grapes I grow are tiny compared to yours, Margaret. Glad you are feeling better!
ReplyDeleteI imagine they still taste yummy, even if they are small :)
DeleteWhat lovely fruit. It always tastes better when picked from the garden.
ReplyDeleteYour fruit looks great!!
ReplyDeleteFruits and vegetables from the garden are the best and yours look yummy. I have a tiny grape plant, grown from a seed this year. It's rare we get grapes with seeds nowadays. The grape plant is my 'garden baby'. :)
ReplyDeleteI hope your grape grows well for you. There is nothing more satisfying than eating fruit from a seed you have grown yourself :)
DeleteA lovely selection of fruit Margaret - I have been glad of DD's help in the veggie garden this summer - as the results are for all the family, there is a lot there! Our grape did not really recover from that frost - not helped by a soccer ball landing in the middle of the vine...
ReplyDeleteBlessings
Maxine
Poor grape vine - hopefully it will recover well next year :)
DeleteOh! This looks so yummy! And so nice of you to let the birds join.
ReplyDeleteHa. No one could do anything in our kitchen. I even have a pot of ravioli from Saturday on the balcony I need to get rid of the "contents" (no worries, it´s still cold here).
I NEED to do the washing up.
Hmmm, your fruit really looks so yummy!
I think washing up is one household job that never ends! You get one lot out of the way, and the next is already growing :)
DeleteAll the fruit sounds amazing. And to grow it yourself, doubly amazing!
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm glad you got to feeling better. The fruit from your garden is so pretty. I've never been able to grow pretty fruit but plan to plant a row of strawberries in the next few days, and keep my fingers crossed. It really is hard to start anything in the kitchen when there is a sink full of dirty dishes.
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