Thursday, 26 June 2014

How do you Pick Yours?

Posted by Rosie

Fruit!  How you you pick your fruit? What did you think I meant?!

 Fruit harvesting is getting into full swing here at Eco-Gites of Lenault and I am spending more and more time picking fruit and processing it for use throughout the year.  

After an early start the strawberries are almost at an end but everything else is coming to the fore - redcurrants, whitecurrants, blackcurrants, raspberries, tayberries, loganberries and rhubarb are all ripe for picking .... soon it will be the gooseberries and worcesterberries and then blackberries.  

Redcurrants

Tayberries

Blackcurrants

Whilst picking raspberries I got to thinking about how people pick fruit.  Take my friend J - she will start at one end of the fruit bush and work her way assiduously along, picking everything  in sight in a completely methodical fashion.  It's a rare berry that escapes her diligent picking.  She's a stripper!  Me?  Well I'm a flitter!  I start to pick methodically and then my eye is drawn to that large berry up there , oh and look, a cluster behind those leaves that I must pick now in case I miss them later.  Generally this leads to me picking all the biggest fruits first leaving the small ones to the end and finally abandoning the most tiny ones tp the birds!  I wish I was a stripper!

 So, are you a stripper or a flitter?  Do you pick every single berry or do you leave some when it all gets too much? 

Finally for Mammasaurus and anyone else who likes a challenge, I thought it was time to show you another mystery plant that is starting to fruit here.  Any ideas what this fruit bearing bush is?

Mystery berry

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30 comments :

  1. Penny P.S. and A Residence26 June 2014 at 11:35

    I am a flitter, and I like nothing better than to take my kids out for ages and drive them mad as I go back for just one more! I inherited it from my mother. Visiting via Mammasaurus!

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  2. The Reading Residence26 June 2014 at 11:39

    Hmm, I'm a stripper, I think! Our strawberries are still in full swing here and we're just waiting on some raspberries.

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    1. A Green and Rosie Life1 July 2014 at 14:15

      LOL - bet you never thought you'd write that in the Internet ;)

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  3. Kerry26 June 2014 at 11:42

    Oh I am a flitter for sure I get far too distracted. Lovely fruits by the way xxx

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  4. Anonymous26 June 2014 at 12:26

    Late read this AM as all work has to be done before heat! A stripper eh! I am also a methodical plucker what are you? A flittly plucker? much love J xx

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    1. A Green and Rosie Life1 July 2014 at 14:18

      I am a very flitty plucker indeed but I get therein the end :)

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  5. Unknown26 June 2014 at 12:37

    Lots of lovely fruit you have there. The only fruit I've grown is strawberries and I tend to be a stripper. Most of them end up in smoothies anyway so it doesn't matter if they are a bit small. No idea what your mystery berry is I'm afraid.

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    1. A Green and Rosie Life1 July 2014 at 14:20

      It's a Jostaberry - a cross between a blackcurrant and a gooseberry.

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  6. Lil Muse Lily26 June 2014 at 13:13

    the only fruit i get to pick these days are all the mangoes falling from our mango tree and a few strawberries that actually made it from the little potted pots. yours looks lovely!!

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  7. Redpeffer26 June 2014 at 13:39

    I'm definitely a flitter like you-I get distracted by the large bright fruit! No idea about those fruits though, sorry :)

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    1. A Green and Rosie Life1 July 2014 at 14:22

      Hello flitter friend. It's a Jostaberry - a cross between a blackcurrant and a gooseberry.

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  8. Sounding Like My Mother26 June 2014 at 14:18

    Flitter for sure. No clue as to what your mystery berry could be. I do love all these fruit pictures though - must be amazing to go out and pick what you've grown.

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    1. A Green and Rosie Life1 July 2014 at 14:23

      It is amazing but takes ages to pick and process. The mystery fruit is a Jostaberry - a cross between a blackcurrant and a gooseberry.

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  9. Mammasaurus26 June 2014 at 14:46

    Crowberry ?! Blackthorn ?! *crosses fingers and prays*
    I too am flitter - I tend to pick what I fancy eating! Pick it, lick it, roll it, flick it - yes? Oh hang on that's something else....
    Thanks for joining in again sausage! x

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    1. A Green and Rosie Life1 July 2014 at 14:24

      If only the sloes on our blackthorn were as big and thorn-less as this one. It is in fact a Jostaberry - a cross between a blackcurrant and a gooseberry. Wanders off to see what a crowberry is though ....

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  10. doris sander26 June 2014 at 18:28

    I am a stripper! ocd tendencies, lol.

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    1. A Green and Rosie Life1 July 2014 at 14:25

      Yes, I do believe OCD and fruit stripping go together!

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  11. Anonymous27 June 2014 at 00:24

    I only have potted plants here in the UK but in the Philippines I help my grandmother in picking fruits and veggies. With the rootcrops we get them by the rows. Let the soil rest and a stem will be planted again there. With trees my grandmother go up there to pick up the ones she can hold on too. Or we use ladder. Then we pick the ripe ones. and let the unripe to be picked up the next week or when its ready. We only have trees. Ours is a tropical country so no berries. #hdygg

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    1. A Green and Rosie Life1 July 2014 at 14:26

      I can't imagine not having berries but then thinking about it there would be all those wonderful tropical fruits to gorge on instead!

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  12. Anonymous27 June 2014 at 13:29

    Are they Jocasta Berries? J x

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  13. Glenda - Dining In27 June 2014 at 18:54

    My favourite thing to do is sit in a chair in the garden on a summer day in the sunshine topping and tailing gooseberries. later in the year I adore blackberrying.

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    1. A Green and Rosie Life1 July 2014 at 14:27

      Me too - which is just as well as my gooseberries re almost ripe for picking ...

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  14. Stephanie 139a27 June 2014 at 23:25

    I'm a flitter and desperate to know what that berry is!

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    1. A Green and Rosie Life1 July 2014 at 14:28

      It's a Jostaberry - a cross between a blackcurrant and a gooseberry.

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  15. Kirsty Hijacked By Twins30 June 2014 at 13:31

    Oh I am definitely a flitter and an eater lol I cannot help nibbling as I go x #HDYGG

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