This was my haul from the garden last weekend. Hydrangea heads for an arrangement for a party, three eggs, a dozen apples from our young tree and a few teaspoons full of elderberries - just enough to flavour an apple crumble.
I was interested to find that the berries in the shade were ripening faster than the berries high up in the sunshine. I can't begin to explain that.
The tree was covered in sap-sucking passion vine hoppers which I'm sure are the reason for the meagre harvest.
We should have more success in future now that this young elder tree has been planted by the chicken coop. I hope the chickens will eat the bugs and not the berries and we'll have sufficient blooms for elderflower champagne.
No comments:
Post a Comment