{"id":1793,"date":"2020-08-02T22:33:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T20:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2020-08-03T00:11:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T22:11:04","slug":"berry-month-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/2020\/08\/berry-month-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Berry Month 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Once more I write the yearly post about on the harvest in my garden. Usually the harvest takes place during a couple of days in mid-July, inconveniently sandwiched between summer vacation trips, and thus these posts are generally called ‘berry week<\/em>‘. This year, although one vacation trip was canceled to avoid infection risk in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we had to pick the gooseberries just before leaving for a week in Jutland, but nothing else was ripe at the time. When we returned home I had just one day before going back to work and that took my focus away (bad weather didn’t help either). But this weekend the sunny summer returned and I went out to pick what remained after the birds have had their chance.<\/p>\r\n

(Actually, we started harvesting the garden even earlier than that: The flowers on our elderberry bush were ready on Jun 13 and a basket-full was made to syrup<\/a>).

The gooseberry yield was low, especially compared to the 9+ kilos green (Invicta) berries last year<\/a>, but I expected that after the pruning I gave the bush in spring. All was frozen and will be made to syrup later (worked great last year<\/a>). The red Hinnonmaki have also been pruned and had so few berries that I didn’t bother picking them.<\/p>\r\n

The currants were finally picked on Aug 1 and had good yield, except the redcurrant, where the birds had already taken their share. The red- and whitecurrant were immediately cooked to syrup (like this<\/a> – but I’ll go easier on the vanilla next time) and the blackcurrant was cooked to marmalade.<\/p>\r\n

In numbers:<\/p>\r\n