{"id":138941,"date":"2023-08-25T21:27:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T14:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/theyre-huge-this-year-uk-fruit-pickers-hail-bumper-blackberry-crop\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T21:41:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T14:41:27","slug":"theyre-huge-this-year-uk-fruit-pickers-hail-bumper-blackberry-crop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/theyre-huge-this-year-uk-fruit-pickers-hail-bumper-blackberry-crop\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019re huge this year\u2019: UK fruit pickers hail bumper blackberry crop"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\u2018Just about perfect\u2019 weather conditions mean berries are abundant \u2013 ideal for bank holiday weekend foragingThe sun shone at the right time but not too harshly, and the rain provided just about the perfect amount of watering. As a result, gardeners, foragers and fans of fruity puddings in many parts of the UK are relishing one of the most abundant, juiciest blackberry crops for years.\u201cIt\u2019s a really good year,\u201d said John Myers, the head gardener at the National Trust\u2019s Ham House in London. \u201cConditions have been just about perfect. We had a nice May and June when the temperatures were good. June was warm but not too hot, allowing the flowers to take up enough nutrients and the pollinators to do their thing. Then after June we had quite a lot of rain, which did the berries a world of good, plumping them up. In the last few weeks it\u2019s been warm, meaning they\u2019ve ripened really well.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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