Strawberries for dessert. Yum!

Well the pallet has been producing lots of yummy strawberries for the family to devour.

We had a taste test on Christmas morning to decide which variety was the best. I have 4 Albion strawberries on the top row and the rest are Camarosa.  It was 100% vote that Albion was the better of the two.
The one variety that I didn't plant as many..... Always the way.I'll have to plant more of them next year.

Albion has the added benefit of being day length neutral, which is helpful when you gets periods of grey and wet weather... like we have at the moment. We also decided that the flavour was more like strawberries of old.

We have had a lot of success with the berries all round. Lots of raspberries,boysenberries, and black currants have been amazing in their first season. We had 1 cherry.  1 apple.

A very good crop of potatoes, corn coming on well too. Tomatoes are green waiting to ripen.
Lots of lettuce, salad greens and kale.

Overall I'm very happy with my new garden.

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas!

I've Been In The Garden.

My time lately has been in the garden, and looking after Tim, he has had a rough time of it of late. So sorry for lack of posts.
I have been flat out clearing and making space for the fruit trees, in my new garden. I had for make the most of the planting season, so that meant pruning and digging out 30 roses, which I donated to my parents church. Removing alot of over grown conifers and scruffy plants.
I have just completed planting all the fruit trees and bushes. Of course there has been the un ending trips to garden centres and growers, and the head hurt of choosing what to grow.

I have settled on

Double grafted Apple
Flatto Nectarine
Flatto Peach
Apricot
Greengage
Cherry
Blueberries
Black Currants
Red Currants
Raspberries
Blackberry
Loganberries
Boysenberry
Asparagus

I have planted a full compliment of herbs, and the vege garden is starting to feed us. I have put in plenty of greens of all varieties.
So I will be supper busy in the coming summer seasons when all these start producing.
Roll on summer!