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Blackberry and Plum help
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Apologies for sticking two problems under one post. Anyway, problem one is that my fine crop of red blackberries are slowly turning red, but as they do so, so of the berries aer turning a sort of brown/grey colour. Anyone got any idea what this is or whether they're ok to eat? Pictures he http://www.zen14024.zen.co.uk/garden/ Similarly, my crop of plum trees seem to have a large amount of fruits where a fly or something seems to have burrowed in. The only evidence is the dried sap hanging from the bottom of the fruit/ (Pictures on the same link above) We had this problem and we did eat the fruit although we kept an eye out for wriggles! However, it does mean that we can't really offer an of the fruit to friends. Any ideas how I can combat/prevent this for next year? Thanks in advance for any advice/suggestions Cheers Mike |
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Blackberry and Plum help
Mike wrote in message ... Pictures he http://www.zen14024.zen.co.uk/garden/ Similarly, my crop of plum trees seem to have a large amount of fruits where a fly or something seems to have burrowed in. The only evidence is the dried sap hanging from the bottom of the fruit/ (Pictures on the same link above) Plums often have a little sugary droplet at the bottom without a fly or insect being involved. Are you sure that there is always a grub inside? -- Anton |
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Blackberry and Plum help
I didn't know that. Maybe you're right. I just seem to remember that
last year we opened quite a few up to find a maggot inside. This led me to hink that these sugary droplets were as the result of a wound healing on the fruit. Mike anton wrote: Mike wrote in message ... Pictures he http://www.zen14024.zen.co.uk/garden/ Similarly, my crop of plum trees seem to have a large amount of fruits where a fly or something seems to have burrowed in. The only evidence is the dried sap hanging from the bottom of the fruit/ (Pictures on the same link above) Plums often have a little sugary droplet at the bottom without a fly or insect being involved. Are you sure that there is always a grub inside? -- Anton |
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Blackberry and Plum help
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:26:45 +0100, Warwick
wrote: In article , says... Hi Apologies for sticking two problems under one post. Anyway, problem one is that my fine crop of red blackberries are slowly turning red, but as they do so, so of the berries aer turning a sort of brown/grey colour. Anyone got any idea what this is or whether they're ok to eat? Pictures he http://www.zen14024.zen.co.uk/garden/ Erm.. that doesn't work.. I can't see your C: drive... img src="file:///C:/Program%20Files/Apache% 0Group/Apache2/htdocs/Garden/100_0562.JPG Lemme guess.......waves hands.... wigglez Fez... http://www.affordable-afpers.co.uk/urg/garden.html Is that your page? a nice pair of plums! -- martin |
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