The seasons seem rather out of sync this year. Went for a stroll
yesterday and there were wild blackberries ready for picking. Usually we
start picking around mid-September.

No doubt it will all be explained by those two words "Climate Change!"

On 08/08/2022 20:37, Polly@golly wrote:
> The seasons seem rather out of sync this year. Went for a stroll
> yesterday and there were wild blackberries ready for picking. Usually we
> start picking around mid-September.
>
> No doubt it will all be explained by those two words "Climate Change!"

I haven't noticed blackberries yet but the prolonged drought and excess
heat are bound to disrupt the normal growing patterns. I am usually
still picking the last tayberries when the mulberries start being ripe.
This year there was a couple of weeks between them.
Trees tend to suffer in silence but my monkey puzzle seeds are starting
to drop which is far too early. The cones of seeds haven't finished
going brown yet and certainly don't seem to have any nuts formed in the
ones that have fallen. On the other hand the walnut tree is fruiting far
better than I have seen it before. (It is about forty years old)

In message <tcrol2$10tmk$1@dont-email.me>, "Polly@golly"
<pwllgloyw@gmail.com> writes
>The seasons seem rather out of sync this year. Went for a stroll
>yesterday and there were wild blackberries ready for picking. Usually
>we start picking around mid-September.

Here in Aberdeenshire, wild raspberries are abundant this year, but wild
blackberries are still a long way from ripe.
--
Graeme

On 2022-08-08 8:37 pm, Polly@golly wrote:
> The seasons seem rather out of sync this year. Went for a stroll
> yesterday and there were wild blackberries ready for picking. Usually we
> start picking around mid-September.
>
> No doubt it will all be explained by those two words "Climate Change!"

Our autumn-fruiting raspberries have already started to ripen, though
there's not many of them yet. Having to keep them watered so they don't
wither in the heat.

tahiri <tahiri2@tanygraig.force9.co.uk> wrote:
> On 08/08/2022 20:37, Polly@golly wrote:
> > The seasons seem rather out of sync this year. Went for a stroll
> > yesterday and there were wild blackberries ready for picking. Usually we
> > start picking around mid-September.
> >
> > No doubt it will all be explained by those two words "Climate Change!"
>
> I haven't noticed blackberries yet but the prolonged drought and excess

This year we have the most fantastic crop of blackberries I've ever
seen. We have quite a lot of brambles in various places on our
smallholding and they're absolutely laden with berries which have been
ripe for quite a while now, at least a couple of weeks.

I don't know where the brambles get the water from but they're
managing, much better than most other things!

--
Chris Green
·

On 2022-08-08, Polly@golly <pwllgloyw@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> No doubt it will all be explained by those two words "Climate Change!"

Nah, nice hot summer, simply. Happens every few years.

Stay Happy & Keep Strolling ;-)

On 2022-08-08, tahiri <tahiri2@tanygraig.force9.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> No doubt it will all be explained by those two words "Climate Change!"
>
> I haven't noticed blackberries yet but the prolonged drought and excess
> heat are bound to disrupt the normal growing patterns. I am usually
> still picking the last tayberries when the mulberries start being ripe.
> This year there was a couple of weeks between them.
> Trees tend to suffer in silence but my monkey puzzle seeds are starting
> to drop which is far too early. The cones of seeds haven't finished
> going brown yet and certainly don't seem to have any nuts formed in the
> ones that have fallen. On the other hand the walnut tree is fruiting far
> better than I have seen it before. (It is about forty years old

Plenty if blackberries in Lothian by the coast, good that only birds and
me are noticing them.

;-)

On 9 Aug 2022 at 12:09:55 BST, Chris Green wrote:

> tahiri <tahiri2@tanygraig.force9.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 08/08/2022 20:37, Polly@golly wrote:
>>> The seasons seem rather out of sync this year. Went for a stroll
>>> yesterday and there were wild blackberries ready for picking. Usually we
>>> start picking around mid-September.
>>>
>>> No doubt it will all be explained by those two words "Climate Change!"
>>
>> I haven't noticed blackberries yet but the prolonged drought and excess
>
> This year we have the most fantastic crop of blackberries I've ever
> seen. We have quite a lot of brambles in various places on our
> smallholding and they're absolutely laden with berries which have been
> ripe for quite a while now, at least a couple of weeks.
>
> I don't know where the brambles get the water from but they're
> managing, much better than most other things!

Same here in Sheffield.

--
Cheers, Rob