About 20lbs (9kgs) picked from the trees this morning, representing roughly 1/5th of the overall crop. Quite what I’m going to do with them all I’ve yet to decide but first they must ripen of course. Like our apple crop these are at least one month early and at least 6 weeks for the Comice variety. Pretty extraordinary really.
These were picked as my plan to do some digging was curtailed by the impossibility of getting a fork into the ground. All our water butts are now empty too meaning we could desperately do with at least some rain to refill them and soften the ground a little. There’s no sign of anything imminent though. Having said that crops like the aubergine and tomatoes are lapping up the sun and warmth. As to are our hops which i shall endeaveour to remember to take a photo of next time I’m on the plot. Can’t live in Kent and not grow hops! Though i don’t use mine to brew with, i do know that the annual Green Hop beer has been brewed by those that do. Check out the link below if you would like to know more-
Sadly the usual annual opening beer festival featuring these amazing brews has like most other events bitten the dust this year but can only hope we’re in a position for it to return next instead.
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