Year: 2014

The first Mulberries of the year 2014

This year is not a bumper crop, and they are not very big. But the flavour of this Illinois Everbearing

I cannot remember this ever happening. But this year, it has been quite hot and dry, followed by a sudden

I knew it was going to go cold last night. The forecast said just slightly above freezing. But this morning

These photos are the closet I could get (using a mobile phone camera) to the swallows, any closer and they

This is one of many figs that have ripened over this last week. There are many other varieties following up.

This variety from Pavlovsk Experiment Station, Vavilov Institute, St Petersburg, Russia in 1976. A high yielding variety that is resistant

This variety is not to be confused with the English ‘Golden Russet’ this is the the US variety. It comes

From a previous post https://www.gb-online.co.uk/gb-wordpress/?p=900 We were perplexed as to what variety we had actually got. It started off looking

A native of the town namesake, grown in the northeast of Cotes d’Armor and the surrounding communities of Ille-et-Vilaine The

Raised in about 1880 in Grevenbroich, Rheinland, Germany by Diedrich Uhlhorn junior. Fruits have crisp flesh with a subacid flavour.