Fruit update

This is a nice time of year for fruiting plants - lots of flowers and feels like things are happening:

Apple: Golden Delicious planted just over a year ago - looking happy, have a few flowers so maybe will end up with a couple of fruit. Neighbours have apples in flower at the moment so good chance of pollination. The black currants which were twigs last year are growing very strongly and are completely covered in little flowers:

Since these flower all at once we get the fruit crop all in one go - on the plus side currants are very easy to preserve. The strawberries planted next to these are looking healthy:

Will need to net them soon to avoid the fat birds / no fruit for us combo. Finally back at the house the blueberries are in flower:

These will be in flower for the next few weeks and should keep us in fruit for much of the summer. Our raspberries:

Are an autumn variety so flower much later in the year (and get cut back to nothing in the winter). Finally we are finding potatoes we missed from last years harvest sprouting, as we dig for the coming season:

No idea what variety it is - however hoping that the growing-spuds-in-bags strategy will avoid this for 2017. Current state of cultivation of the south side:

Hopefully will get a bit more digging done over the holiday weekend then get the rotavator up there...