After 3 years, I’ve finally finished the last cultivated area in the garden on the steep slope below the pond. The soil is very shallow, so I’ve terraced with bare rock showing between the terraces.
I’ve planted mostly fruit and berry bushes here, but also Xanthoxylum piperitum (Japanese pepper), one of which is thornless. There are also 3 types of Jostaberry, two selections of “Green-berried Blackcurrant”, three golden currants (Ribes aureum), three different black raspberries, two Elaeagnus umbellatus, Gooseberry Xenia and a couple of unknown Ribes spp. from Bo Blomqvist and Knut Poulsen!
The best October berry here is a berry that I have concluded in the past is Worcesterberry, although I had received it as Jostaberry, see the following blog post from 2015, I http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=2391 (it is thorny which Jostaberry is not).
During the PDC course at the weekend, the students helped harvest these berries in the garden..these are now drying in the oven for fruit leather, together with Aronia berries…
221117: I’ve been eating my Worcesterberries daily with breakfast almost every day….yesterday, I harvested the last ones at -10C!! Added video of the worcestermarbles!
I cooked the Worcesterberries briefly to break down the skin of the fruit a bit before pouring in to an oven tray to dry as fruit leather
The berries on the right are from Aronia melanocarpa “Moskva”. The berries on the left I’m using for the first time this year seed propagated as Aronia x prunifolia, which is a hybrid called purple chokeberry in recognition of its purple berries (although Moskva have more purplish berries in this picture!). It is considered to be a natural hybrid between Aronia melanocarpa and Aronia arbutifolia.
Drying in the oven as the wood stove isn’t on yet!
A PDC’er picks Worcesterberries
..another PDC’er picking Aronia melanocarpa
..and yet another PDC’er picking Aronia melanocarpa
PDC’ers picking Worcesterberries…
Picking Aronia x prunifolia
Dried Worcesterleather
…and dried Aronia berries!
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
