Potatoes and Fruit

When we completed the fruit beds at the start of May, we planted out a number of potatoes and onions in the spaces between the (rather small) fruit bushes. It's still a little soon for the potatoes, as they've not gone over, but they're rather large, and are threatening to swamp the blueberries, currants, and gooseberries, so we've harvested about eight plants.

Most successful has been the Belle de Fontenay, which is an early, and has thus cropped quite well. We also had to bring up some Pink Fir Apples: as it's a late maincrop, it was a little disappointing—but by September should be much better. The same is true of the King Edwards, which are pretty, but small.

The Belle de la Fontaine were extremely tasty, however, boiled and buttered.

We also collected the red, white and blackcurrants: two of the three blackcurrants were casualties, so we're rather short of those (I think we had four currants). We also had a good bowlful of gooseberries (Invicta (green), and Hinnonmaki Red & Yellow), which have been frozen for now.

Sadly, that's almost it for soft fruit this year: there might be a few raspberries, but not many, and I hope for another bowl or two of strawberries. That said, there'll be blackberries and elderberries from foraging!