Reading Derek Jennings’ article on raspberries on the main web-site I was reminded of all his fruit breeding successes: what a wonderful achievement! When Derek retired from the Scottish Crop Research Institute in Dundee some twenty years ago I suggested that he come down and work with us in Kent; he was much too young [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Autumn Fruiting Raspberies of Derek Jennings
Posted in Articles on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cracked Cherries- waste not want not
Posted in Fruit Questions on July 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Oh for some rain, the fruit, the vegetables and flowers are crying out for water and all the water-butts are empty, but there is hope at last. The Met. Office has forecast heavy rain; perhaps this time we will get some.
Yes, here it comes, lots of it; this was on 9th July. The next [...]
Worcesterberry – is it widely grown?
Posted in Fruit Questions on July 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Worcesterberry and the Jostaberry are often grouped together as hybrids of a gooseberry and a blackcurrant, but while this holds true for the latter botanists seem to have decided that the Worcesterberry is not a hybrid and probably a form of the North America species – Ribes divaricatum – which makes a vigorous [...]
Tayberries and Berries Galore in Washington
Posted in News on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I found the article on the origins of the Tayberry fascinating. Last summer I made delicious freezer jam from Tayberries. It is popular in Western Washington, and, as Derek Jennings who bred the Tayberry noted, there is a bed and breakfast named after the Tayberry in my home town of Puyallup, Washington.
We are in berry [...]
Black Aphid on Apple – how can this be?
Posted in Fruit Questions on July 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When the cold wet weather of May gave way to a warm evening early in June I went to spray the fruit trees with a foliar feed. Walking through the apples I was struck by the contrast between a few trees with every leaf crimped and the trees whose leaves were in full vigour. [...]
‘Cherry Orchards of Kent’
Posted in News on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘Cherry orchards of Kent’ is the subject trailed for Radio 4 ‘Food Programme’ for Sunday 13 July (12.32ish pm; on-air repeat Monday 14th, 4pm); otherwise ‘listen again’ via i-Player.
The ‘trail’ also said that the programme would be ‘finding out why we should all be signing up for a campaign to aid our cherries’.
Jeff Bull
To [...]
Olive Trees Fruiting in England
Posted in News on July 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A report of an olive tree fruiting in Suffolk was recently published on our main web site, but this is a youngster compared with the tree at the Chelsea Physic Garden in London, which was probably planted over 70 years ago. It has fruited from time to time and in 2006 produced a bumper crop [...]
