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Murray's Blackcurrants
Progress Journal (5)
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02 Jan 2008Done for this year Blackcurrants and 'round the back garden
Yesterday I picked 1.8kg of ripe blackcurrant from the five plants I have. They are now sitting on my kitchen bench in the form of about 6 litres of homemade jam.
More pictures here….
http://radio.weblogs.com/0128644/2008/01/03.html#a1067
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31 Dec 2007Ready for picking (I think) Blackcurrants and 'round the back garden
The bird netting is working superbly protecting my blackcurrant crop. Looks like I’m going to have plenty for jam. I just looked up the recipe and it seem blackcurrant jam is one of the easier jams to make.
3lbs. Blackcurrants
4lbs. Sugar
1 pint water
Just boil the sugar and water for 6 min...
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18 Dec 2007Rain & Gravity Blackcurrants and 'round the back garden
Some of the black-current bushes suffered some damage after the heavy rain we’ve had here the last two days. With all that fruit and the extra weight of the rainwater a few branches have given way to gravity. The plants can hardly keep the fruit off the ground. I will do a pick to lighten t...
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18 Dec 2007another picture Blackcurrants and 'round the back garden
Another branch that could hold the weight of all those wet black-currents.
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14 Dec 2007Colour! Blackcurrants and 'round the back garden
Currents on two of the five bushes are starting to ripen. I ate the first one yesterday. They are big and juicy. No birds have breached the perimeter yet.
Buzz buzz buzz!
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