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Nov 23 2025
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Rose hip

Saturday 22nd November 2025, 2.35pm (day 5,203)

Rose hip, 22/11/25

There have been a couple of exceptions — namely 2018, when I was in Germany, and 2021 on St Helena (and in 2019 I was about to go to Indonesia but not quite yet on my way) — but the 22nd November is not usually a date on which much happens. I find this a depressing, enervating time of year to be honest. Everything’s in decline yet we are still weeks from the turnaround point at the solstice. This rose hip (and feel free to correct me if I’ve got the botany wrong) is still putting in an effort, I guess, but most of the rest of nature has kinda given up. I know how it feels.

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Sep 20 2025
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Fruit: the last phase

Friday 19th September 2025, 1.55pm (day 5,139)

Apples, 19/9/25

Two decades of working the allotment has proven that fruit is so much easier to handle than vegetables. The plums and the various berries (black, blue, josta, logan) have all been and gone. But here is just a small portion of the last crop of the year. Anyone want some apples? We will have too many.

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Aug 26 2025
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One day’s produce – and 14 years’ worth

Monday 25th August 2025, 12.15pm (day 5,114)

Garden produce, 25/8/25

This was the product of less than an hour’s labour in the garden this morning, and there’s plenty more still up there. I know, global warming, climate change and all that, but I doubt a medieval peasant farmer would have complained about the weather round here in 2025. This has been, without a doubt, the most productive year since we acquired the allotment, thus in more than 20 years.

As it is my birthday tomorrow, with this picture I also reach 14 full years of photographs that document my doings on a daily basis. Meaning, as of today, this blog encompasses exactly one quarter of my life. There have been some times when I have felt the creativity waning, not just on particular, less interesting days but in a broader sense. But there were times like that back in 2014, or 2020, or whatever, just as there sometimes still are now. For now, I will do my best to keep it up.

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Aug 11 2025
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Ripening

Monday 11th August 2025, 8.55am (day 5,100)

Plums and pears, 11/8/25

A rapid return to the theme of purpling plums, but as is often the case in August, we seem to have a lot of them. The pears come from elsewhere than our garden but further ripening is still required.

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Aug 09 2025
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Propped up plums

Friday 8th August 2025, 4.55pm (day 5,097)

Propped up plums, 8/8/25

Time for the annual update on the plum tree, which shed one of its limbs a couple of weeks ago, though we did save most of the fruit, currently ripening (but obviously not still growing) on windowsills at home. Had I not made efforts to prop up this big branch it would also, surely, have fallen by now, but those efforts seem to have been successful. There are a lot of insects around this year, so we are in a war of attrition as to who gets the bounty first, but we’re working on it.

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Jul 04 2025
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Early fruit

Thursday 3rd July 2025, 2.40pm (day 5,061)

Early blackberry, 3/7/25

Fairly warm and dry the weather has been — and this is a spot that catches the sun. All the same, surely that can’t be a fully ripe blackberry in the first week of July? But it is. Or was, as shortly after taking the shot I ate the fruit, and very nice it was.

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May 02 2025
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Plumlings

Friday 2nd May 2025, 2.30pm (day 4,999)

Plumlings, 2/5/25

Going on the number of plumlings that currently festoon the tree, I predict that come around late July, the whole thing is going to fall over. Should it stay standing, even 2023’s glut (forty-four pounds of fruit) may be surpassed.

Hello, it’s day 4,999. I’d better not forget to get the camera out at some point tomorrow.

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Nov 10 2024
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Very late blackberries

Sunday 10th November 2024, 1.10pm (day 4,826)

Late blackberries, 10/11/24

I’m very sure this is the latest in any given year that blackberries have featured on this blog. They really should be gone by now, and the majority of them are, having long reduced themselves to shrivelled, dusty-looking remnants. But for some reason or other, these ones are hanging on in there. I wouldn’t eat them, though.

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Oct 09 2024
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Apples, with matching car

Tuesday 8th October 2024, 10.35am (day 4,793)

Apples and car, 8/10/24

I notice that almost exactly three years ago, on 7/10/21, I illustrated that there were still plums on our tree (albeit being eaten by insects). This year, those fruit were all gone by the end of August. But it’s time for the apple tree to pay off. It never matches the production rate of its neighbour, but it does just fine each year. On this shot I note also the matching car behind (yes, our kitchen is that close to the road).

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Sep 14 2024
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Apples and rose hips

Friday 13th September 2024, 3.30pm (day 4,768)

Apples and hips, 13/9/24

The plums are eaten and gone, but there is still some free food to be found in the garden. The apples are not very big and a little tart but they will do fine in a crumble. I suppose I could have moved the prominent leaf before capturing this one but hey, it’s all part of the natural vibe.

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