Yes we are picking lots of raspberries.

We have 6 pickers now besides our permanent girl Lisa. Two are from France, one from Sweden, one from Taiwan and two from Japan. Everyone seems to be getting along well and that makes a real difference.

The first flush of strawberries has just about been finished but all the good work we put into improving the soil seems to have paid off. The quality of the strawberries has been great this year with little disease. 

Some raspberry rows severely damaged by what we suspect is phythophera but still lots of good looking raspberries still coming on the cains that didn’t die. Also regrowth is good in many place and if we can suppress the phythophera for next year production will go up enormously.

The weather has been atrocious this year with lots of drizzly days and not much sun. Surprisingly though the fruit seems to be at least one week ahead.