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Post your photos of yummy summer fruits here!
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Julia's hanging basket just outside the patio doors.
Where's the cream?
Ian
I'm wondering if olives count as 'fruit' :) I should think so - and tomatoes (which are technically berries).
So let's see yours!
Ian
Ian, olives are certainly fruit but not summer ones. Olives don't begin to ripen until November and here are not usually fully ripe until mid-December.
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– k.
Fruits (+veg) delivered to your door.
Our good friends Bill (bearded) and his wife Kathi invited us to Jamaica to celebrate the first birthday of our granddaughter. :D
From memory I think Joanne my daughter shot this one.
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Regards. Barr1e
DennisP
17-07-10, 12:57 PM
These were self picked this morning Sat 17th July by my wife and myself. By late afternon my wife will have made one boxful into raspberry jam and the other half will have been frozen for the winter.
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DennisP
17-07-10, 04:51 PM
And here is just some of the finished product, potted 1/2 hour ago.
http://dpnow.com/galleries/data/554/RaspJam.jpg (http://dpnow.com/galleries/showphoto.php/photo/21319)
very nice. I love jam and you just cannot beat home made :)
Stephen
18-07-10, 10:24 AM
Some summer fruits of the Trentino Valley northern Italy
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Great stuff everyone :)
We're off to the Filipino Barrio Festival in Lampton Park (Hounslow) this afternoon - not been before but I hope to see some weird and wonderful tropical fruits there...
Ian
Tom Holle
19-07-10, 03:49 AM
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Great stuff everyone :)
We're off to the Filipino Barrio Festival in Lampton Park (Hounslow) this afternoon - not been before but I hope to see some weird and wonderful tropical fruits there...
Ian
Oh well, no fresh fruits at the festival - lots of cooked food though! Will post some pics in another thread later :)
Ian
Redcurrants. Always taken and enjoyed by the birds.
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Pol
Chokecherries hanging off a branch in Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Sorry guys, can't help. No fruit this year. The rotten Spring and early summer gales wrecked the fruit crop.
We were over at one of the kids' schoolfriend's house yesterday and the mum was sorting through some fabulous looking blackcurrants from the garden :)
Ian
We were over at one of the kids' schoolfriend's house yesterday and the mum was sorting through some fabulous looking blackcurrants from the garden :)
Ian
We used to have Blackcurrants too but they gradually disappeared, seemed to die off.
Those Redcurrants are rapidly getting eaten. Hardly any of then left this afternoon because there's a steady stream of juvenile Robins feasting on them. They always sing a little song before they grab one, flutter up, grab the berry, sit on the fence with it in their beak then fly away. It's a very 'tweet' routine they have. *LOL
Pol
Oh well, no fresh fruits at the festival - lots of cooked food though! Will post some pics in another thread later :)
Ian
My father, who lives in Thailand most of the year, is over for the summer here in the UK and he brought some rambutan and mangosteen. Rambutan is a fruit with a whitefleshy interior and with a - rather similar in appearance to a lychee, with a stone in the middle, and it's very sweet when ripe. It's easily recognisable as the exterior is red and covered in what is inbetween hairs and spikes - they aren't sharp and are a bit curly :)
Mangosteen is again white on the inside and segmented, and the fleshy innards are protected by a semi-woody shell that can stain your fingers purple. It has a taste that is sweet and tangy and slightly reminiscent of mango, which may be why it's called mangosteen.
He also has mango trees in the garden :)
Ian
escallonia
21-07-10, 11:29 AM
Most of my cherries have been picked and bottled covered them this year the pidgeons had the lot last year
A bumper crop of currents red and black picking them at the moment.
Like the thread Ian gives me a chance to show my efforts in the Garden thanks John.
Blueberries
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Cherry
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Hi escallonia (interesting name!) and thanks for your contribution :)
And welcome to DPNow - I believe this was your first forum post :D
I'm just expecting someone to post a photo of a bottle of summer fruits squash drink! *LOL
Ian
escallonia
21-07-10, 06:20 PM
Well here is what you expected Ian
http://dpnow.com/galleries/data/1056/medium/Bottle_of_orange.jpg (http://dpnow.com/galleries/showphoto.php/photo/21360)
Well here is what you expected Ian
http://dpnow.com/galleries/data/1056/medium/Bottle_of_orange.jpg (http://dpnow.com/galleries/showphoto.php/photo/21360)
*LOL That's not Summer Fruits! But this is:
http://dpnow.com/galleries/data/547/P7210478.jpg (http://dpnow.com/galleries/showphoto.php/photo/21361)
:D*whack:rolleyes::) Ian
escallonia
21-07-10, 07:00 PM
Nice, don't forget to post if you do find something different hope you enjoyed the Festival
Regards John.
escallonia
22-07-10, 08:53 AM
Looks like you had a good crop of raspberries Dennis do you net them? I have autumn raspberries you can't beat growing your own they do taste so much better. Regards JohnR.
Looks like you had a good crop of raspberries Dennis do you net them? I have autumn raspberries you can't beat growing your own they do taste so much better. Regards JohnR.
And let's not forget loganberries :)
Ian
rogleale
23-07-10, 06:37 AM
My favourite market stall during the summer.
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Roger
The French really know how to do a good market. The one here in Hemel Hempstead only comes alive when the French vendors come over once or twice a year!
Ian
As I said previously, no fruit to speak of this year, but his is today's harvest from the vegetable garden.
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A bumper harvest Bear.
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A veggie delight. Imagine your taste buds whilst grilling the peppers and gently sweating the tomatoes and courgette etc and then eaten with garlic bread. :C) *ipop
Mind, I do enjoy my fish and chicken too - preferably in Singapore noodles or just eaten with vegetable.
Regards. Barr1e
Barrie, this is the start of our summer season and all the signs seem to point to it being a good one. We certainly hope so, to make up for the terrible performance of our spring veg this year. There is way too much for us to eat as from now until the end of September we will be picking this amount two or three times a week. A lot will be given away to friends who don't have land of their own.
The aubergines, courgettes, peppers and squash will go on the BBQ tomorrow afternoon to be eaten with grilled veal (humane of course). The tomatoes will be kept for eating on toast covered in olive oil (our own brand) for breakfast and the cucmber will be made inot tzatziki and eaten with toasted mollete (local olive oil bread). I love summer !
escallonia
24-07-10, 06:36 PM
Are blackberries one of my favourites nice shot JohnR
As I said previously, no fruit to speak of this year, but his is today's harvest from the vegetable garden.
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I could eat all of this, no trouble.
escallonia
25-07-10, 02:32 PM
Nice show of of veggie Barrie your tomatoes are a long way ahead of mine.We need rain down here in Folkestone having to water every night.
my shots this morning 50mm E3.
Money maker tomato
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Arthur turner cooking apple
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Falstaff eating Apple.
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Apricots.
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Blackberry + Green Fly
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E-3 + 50-200 lens A.Mode f6.3
Regards. Barr1e