How much !!!!!!!!!!

[binley100]

Just checking a few prices on My supermarket ,com and Ocado are selling cooking gooseberries for �8.70 per kilo ........okay I've picked about 3 kg so thats the rent on the little lottie paid. Gawd knows how many the pigeons ate......so anyway we're now onto raspberries and so I checked the price and.........their waitrose speciality raspberries are �23.47 per kilo ...

[Germinater]

It ridiculous how much they charge for fresh berths this time of year when there in season and ppl want to eat them they charge stupid prices and then when there out of season there selling them of cheap to get ppl buying them .we're the logic in that??

[RedThorn]

Your title did make me chuckle!

I bet your's taste nicer and all as they were properly ripened on the plant and not in a cardboard box.

Hush germinator, they're doing gyo'ers a favour that way better that you eat the nicer ones in season and pay low for them outa season ... hehe

[rustylady]

Flipping eck, I'm worth a small fortune

[zazen999]

I picked my first red gooseberries yesterday - wonder how much the special red ones would go for in Waitrose.
Mine are going into Gooseberry Jelly later in the week. Yum.

[Florence Fennel]

Note to self "buy some fruit bushes this year".

[zazen999]

Gosh Flo - do it! I got Red gooseberries, Purple raspberries, Summer rasps and Autumn rasps all in one year and by eck, they produce some crops. I am pulling rasp canes out every day as well, and am in the process of renewing my strawb stock if T&M ever get them sent.

The purple rasp canes grew to over 7ft tall this year, and have had to be cut down to 5ft - just started harvesting them last week.

It's fruity madness and stuff that doesn't get eaten goes to make fine wine.

[Polly Fouracre]

It always amazes me how much blackberries sell for. Even in the town there are loads of wild ones to pick for free.

[Two_Sheds]

^^ People don't eat fruit & veg unless it's washed, chopped, put in plastic bags and preferably frozen

[Florence Fennel]

Gosh Flo - do it! I got Red gooseberries, Purple raspberries, Summer rasps and Autumn rasps all in one year and by eck, they produce some crops. I am pulling rasp canes out every day as well, and am in the process of renewing my strawb stock if T&M ever get them sent.

The purple rasp canes grew to over 7ft tall this year, and have had to be cut down to 5ft - just started harvesting them last week.

Lawn? What lawn? It's had to completely disappear because I have to buy fruit bushes.

[chris]

I find soft fruit very easy to grow.. I really did prep the ground good (took 3 days of constant work on it - the place where they went was terrible).. but now they pretty much look after themselves.

Trouble is.. I don't know what to do with black, red, or white currants I'm thinking of getting rid of them and replacing with more raspberries. My currant bushes are enourmous now, I didn't realise they grew so large. May move them to the plot for the birds or something.

[Mikey]

^^ People don't eat fruit & veg unless it's washed, chopped, put in plastic bags and preferably frozen

My nephew was like this when he first tried one of our chickens eggs, its was as if I was asking him to eat a pet. An egg is an egg, if its not in a box, it doesn't stop being an egg!

[Aberdeenplotter]

I find soft fruit very easy to grow.. I really did prep the ground good (took 3 days of constant work on it - the place where they went was terrible).. but now they pretty much look after themselves.

Trouble is.. I don't know what to do with black, red, or white currants I'm thinking of getting rid of them and replacing with more raspberries. My currant bushes are enourmous now, I didn't realise they grew so large. May move them to the plot for the birds or something.

Chris,

Currants are really quite simple to look after but once again, I'll give a plug to the RHS book on soft fruit by Harry Baker ISBN 0 85533 193 3. Second hand copies selling on Amazon from 32p + postage.

[chris]

Thanks AP - by "do" I mean how to use them in cooking / cordial etc

They're not that nice raw!

[zazen999]

Home Made Blackcurrant Cordial recipe by Madalene Bonvini-Hamel, Founder of The British Larder – The British Larder

Cordial, jam, jellies, sauces, wine, vinegar. Soft fruit can be used for all these.

Heartily recommend Raspberry vinegar. Sounds wrong but is so right