Last gooseberry crumble - roll on the apples

[fabindia]

Picked the last gooseberries this afternoon. Haven't picked Rhubarb since June, as need to give it a chance to get some strength back. Apples are coming on great but will still be a couple of months to apple crumble, apple pies, apple turnovers and all things apple

[Mo]

I've still got a few blackcurrants that weren't ripe when we did the main picking. 1 blackcurrant sponge. Gooseberries and redcurrants picked a couple of weeks ago. We only got 2 redcurrant pickings, both on the same day - OH picked, I thought he hadn't so I picked while he was sat under a tree strigging them. So Son IL took some home for them. Then the birds took the rest as they ripened. Our rhubarb started looking in need of a rest very early this year. Not enough cherries this year for us AND the birds (and you know who gets in first).
Roll on the apples indeed, but first the Czar plums, Greengages and Victoria plums.
I start my apple pies with the windfalls as soon as they are big enough to be bothered to peel. Quite a lot sharper than mature apples but it extends the season and 'waste not want not'.

[Freeranger]

We haven't had any soft fruit yet!

[Mo]

We haven't had any soft fruit yet!

Where-ever do you live?

[Freeranger]

Up a hill in south scotland. We had rhubarb, and promising strawberries that have dried and died, but the rest isn't ripe yet. They usually harvest in late summer.

[bmpsands]

It's been a bumper year for our strawberries, rhubarb is having a rest, gooseberries not yet ripe enough. Raspberries obviously were since the blackbirds enjoyed them very much.

[kate egg]

We had some fab red gooseberries, about all gone now though, I picked them and ate them all... amazed to do so before the birds got them all like they usually do!

[Mo]

First dish of stewed apples of the season today. Windfalls so a bit sharp, but fine with a spoonful of sugar..
The Czar plums are ripening, I've picked most of them to ripen indoors as they end up with holes if I leave them on the tree till fully ripe.
OH commented that they are as sweet as the nectarines I've been buying.
Greengages and Victoria plums next.

[fabindia]

First dish of stewed apples of the season today. Windfalls so a bit sharp, but fine with a spoonful of sugar..
The Czar plums are ripening, I've picked most of them to ripen indoors as they end up with holes if I leave them on the tree till fully ripe.
OH commented that they are as sweet as the nectarines I've been buying.
Greengages and Victoria plums next.

I really am a little bit green with envy

[Mo]

Greengages now.
Why do they always split instead of ripen.
I've rescued 3 lbs from the flies (left the rest in hopes that they will ripen so that I can eat them raw).
Stewed greengage and ice-cream for tea.